David Marston Writes: July 2012

Andrew hugs Alison like he hasn’t seen her in years. Hands intertwine, lips hang at cheeks. He watches her all the time.

It’s not fair.

Why does David Marston Write?

David Marston Writes is a tool to ensure, um, well that David Marston writes on a regular basis. Its frequency depends on both real life and whether I've something to say.

It started off as both a writing exercise when other stories were going badly and as a brain dump for all those annoying ideas that wouldn't go away, but began to take the form of writings in a series formed around a theme.

The only rule is that I must start and finish in a total of two hours.

David Marston Writes comes with the disclaimer of "Partial Dramatisation" - in other words it shouldn't be treated as strict life writing. I make bits up, roll real people into a single character (usually when I don't know them well enough to just borrow them), and rely on hindsight.

Not sure where to start? Have a look at the blurbs below.

Series Three

Writing is Killing Me! - feeling somewhat exhausted, stretched at the real job and imersed in trying to finish an acceptable draft of my first novel, I knew I needed to drop something and the blog was the most obvious victim. But, deciding that I wanted to end in a way that felt complete, this became the first in a (slightly) more coherent narrative series. Part life writing, as per usual, and part analysis of why I was trying write and what I was hoping to acheive the first installment is found here.

Series One

I began this blog at the same time as an MA in Creative Writing. It was designed to be a tool to ensure I had a weekly deadline to get something out. The first series, which ran for about a year before an enforced three week break (including one silly month where I tried to blog every day) and whilst they still read as mildly amusing much of it seems fairly poor in retrospect. To an extent, they're only left up as an acknowledgement that I managed to get something out every week for a year and to show how far my writing has come.

That said, I still think Listen is quite good.

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Monday, 2 July 2012

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