My name is David Bragg. I’m an author with a persistent lean towards horror. This is largely me talking about my writing process, tools, and background.
Status Update - 2026 Week 17
Overview ongoing writing projects weekly flash fiction These Are Not My Memories added to Patreon weekly flash fiction GREAT is draft complete and out to readers for feedback short story Corporeal Acquisitions being written, currently in first draft new weekly flash fiction started and in the exploratory phase set up blog at exsilium.heavyliftingindustries.com new accounts set up on Patreon and GoodReads These Are Not My Memories New flash fiction piece posted to Patreon. It鈥檚 free to read and includes an epub download option for paid Patreon members. ...
Status Update - 2026 Week 16
Overview resumed work on short story Corporeal Acquisitions started and completed flash fiction piece These Are Not My Memories started flash fiction adaptation of short film script GREAT completed two new blog posts installed and started using taskwarrior and timewarrior created template repository for new writing projects wrote xq tool for extracting questions from files Corporeal Acquisitions In 2023 I was looking for a writing outlet and considering revisiting prose. I started working on building out a cosmic horror short story at the time. I had put around a week鈥檚 worth of effort into figuring out what story I was telling and building some basic structure. ...
Writing for Flow
One of the ways that I try to organize my writing is for flow. For me, that means not having to stop or slow down. Keep my thoughts and keystrokes uninterrupted. My goal is to minimize the amount of things getting in the way of getting the words out. This is a brief introduction to the systems and software I use. I鈥檒l go into more detail on most of these topics in future posts. ...
The Time is Now
If you鈥檙e passively curious what鈥檚 going on here, the following paragraph is the tl;dr version. My name is Dave. I鈥檝e been writing my entire life. My background is deeply rooted in screenwriting. My present circumstances allow me the time to invest heavily in writing. I鈥檓 using that time veer off my well worn screenwriting path toward prose. This blog will be where I talk about writing as a discipline, the tools I use for writing as a filthy Linux deviant, and my overall writing process. ...