OLIVER DACE
A WRITER OF SURREAL
HORROR
A short poem about a Spotted Whale started my writing passion.
Well.
It is more of an obsession. A manic desire that led me that had led me to devote the past twenty years to writing stories. My debut novel, alone, had taken me eight years to complete.
My current project, The Live Imaginaries, forced me to wake up at an ungodly hour to write. That is, of course, if I stopped procrastinating. Why?
I don't know.
I would be better off pursuing other fields if I sought a decent living but, what can I say, I want to write stories that taste good.
Music
The truth is that I have limited time to read any books. Thus, music has become my main creative fuel that has shaped how I create stories and characters. Each story needs a hype song to spurn imagery and a theme song to direct the plot. I shaped characters by imagining them singing or dancing to the tune.
Imagery
I want my readers to see what they are reading.
I emphasized body language, sensory details and the setting of each story. That doesn't help with my eagerness to hire artists to illustrate my characters to both motivate me and blackmail myself. I am not going to easily quit a story after I spent over a grand in images.
Magical Realism
There are two genres that I am fond of writing: Horror & Magical Realism. The former twists the ordinary. The latter makes the ordinary extraordinary.