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David Wake

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David Wake started as a playwright, taking shows to London and the Edinburgh Fringe, and winning awards (and drinking lager out of one piece of silverware at the celebratory curry).

He completed an MA in Writing at Birmingham City University, co-edited the anthology and received that year's screenwriting award.

His novels cover SF, steampunk and more. He has two series, the Derring-Do Club adventures, the Thinkersphere near-future police procedurals and stand-alone ranging from samurai revenge thriller, political satire pub crawl and a cosy mystery.

He co-founded and co-runs New Street Authors, an indie publishing collective based in Birmingham, UK. He's the inventor of the drabble, which are stories of exactly 100 words.

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As Close to Perfection As Can Be

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

Leonardo Da Vinci.

I’m approaching the abandoning point of quite a few projects.  I’m not saying they are Art, but they are carefully crafted art.  The trick is to realize when you are about to make it worse and stop.

I write using Microsoft Word and it’s been a struggle recently.  They ‘updated’ it and now tracked changes doesn’t work the same.  Some versions

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