David’s writing

February 27, 2007 at 10:36 am (Christian, Lithgo Finni, The cardboard Apollo 6 has given the all clear, With what I do may I worship you, Writing, Writing, reading, the meaningful words)

(Could use your help :) see below)

I really like to write and I don’t particularly mind if anyone wants to read what I write – its enough just to like writing.

However, in contradiction to the above, I’ve been thinking that I’ve written a lot of vaguely or explicitely Christian stories in the last year, and wondered why; it used to be really hard for me to think of a Christian story to write.

So maybe I was thinking about sending in to a Christian magazine with a view to one day putting a collection of short stories together. Do you think I should or do you think I should wait til I get better at it?

Could folk maybe give their views on the following stories that I’ve written? I really need them to be a) totally ripped apart and/or b) ranked top 3 in order of preference. If anyones up for some hardcore reading (1 page each)  it would be great :) Also if you’re not a Christian please give feedback too as its just the subject matter thats Christian, but I’d like it to still have a universal appeal/clarity.

My writing is here

and the stories with Christian overtones are:

Spirit of Fear
My Camden
Valentine (which can come across awfully misconstrued in a non-Christian context. Not a judgement just an observation.)
Ship
Lamentations (which is not a comment on what God is like but what the world is like without God. God is not like this its just a story.)
Crystal Lake This is not a short story but a serial, here is chapter 1. Future chapters develop plot. I want to publically distance myself from the diabolical first scene. This is an old version that I need to update. (no internet in flat so will need to bring it in to uni another day)
These too altho they aren’t really overtly Christian at all:
Ceilidh (Rebeccas ceilidh merged with Physoc ceilidh and put into words. Very cheesy.)
Fireplace (I dont actually agree with the narrators view anymore here.)
Choices
Stories

Its pretty embarrassing to put my own stuff up like that but the idea is to try and  get a top 3 ;p If anyones up for actually reading them all or giving feedback on a couple I would be surprised/grateful.

3 Comments

  1. Lydia said,

    March 2, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    I read these yesterday and came up with an order and whats this, my memory card has busted again.

    So whilst I’m waiting for one of them flashy light-up 2gig ones, I’ll say I liked Spirit of Fear, My Camden, Ship, Ceilidh but I cannot recall the order or if there were more.

    j00 rockz0r.

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  2. lithgo said,

    March 9, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    i get stupidly nervous about this…(or maybe i just say that right)

    so far thinking…

    valentine…spirit of fear…stories (new version on site)…
    still i feel like ceilidh is better tho and my camden more emotional
    ship is probably better too

    even started liking manlamb

    ..
    ..
    gone right off valentine.

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  3. Lydia said,

    March 10, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    !

    Just make a descisiona s to what you want to do, and if you think straight after you made it “crap that was the wrong descision, it shouldve been that one” then go for that one!

    And if you do that more than 3 times, go for whichever you’d feel you’d have to edit the least if you were to submit it.

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