So... who are you?
My name's David Reynolds. I am many things (as we all are), but mostly I am a culture addict and critic. I can't stop thinking about things - too many things - and that's led me down a path of adventure, academia, and publishing.
That's pretty much who I am in a nutshell. For further gritty details you should visit my blog (http://davaflava.wordpress.com).
When did you begin writing?
That's hard to pin down. Like so many others I began writing for school. Unlike so many others, however, I actually liked writing at a very young age. I'd write little stories, like fan fiction or mash-up stories featuring my favourite characters from popular culture, and I'd record little radio-dramas on our old tape-recorder, making all sorts of strange voices and crazy sound effects. I love going back through whatever scraps that have survived from those early days of writing for a laugh. And, it's still good for a laugh.
I wrote a lot of poetry in my teenage years. Poetry brought me to writing songs and music, which I still dabble with a little. I moved away from writing like this when I went to university. Academic writing demands a different sort of rigour, and so I had to change gears.
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