Theatre of Blood The ideas behind the Vincent Price-Diana Rigg classic Theatre of Blood helped enormously in writing my story A Night of Murder which was published recently in a crime fiction supplement to Fast Fiction magazine in Australia.
In the story, just like in the film, we have vengeance, a gang of down-and-outs and an arrogant character who looks down his nose at his audience.
The story also touches on the subject of sock puppetry, whereby some authors have been giving their own books glowing reviews, even setting up websites in praise of themselves (though not giving away it is them that set up the websites, and even viciously trolling those who dare to expose their nefarious activities.
What I enjoyed most about working on this story was going back to my roots as a crime fiction writer.
Well, back to the grind.
Below are links to my Global Short Story Competition winning story, my short-listed story for the National newspaper (Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition) and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:
http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments
Happy Writing!
In the story, just like in the film, we have vengeance, a gang of down-and-outs and an arrogant character who looks down his nose at his audience.
The story also touches on the subject of sock puppetry, whereby some authors have been giving their own books glowing reviews, even setting up websites in praise of themselves (though not giving away it is them that set up the websites, and even viciously trolling those who dare to expose their nefarious activities.
What I enjoyed most about working on this story was going back to my roots as a crime fiction writer.
Well, back to the grind.
Below are links to my Global Short Story Competition winning story, my short-listed story for the National newspaper (Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition) and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:
http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments
Happy Writing!
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