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| David M. Turner |
I'm 25 years old and have
recently found the pen again
and started writing. I love
horror, dark fantasy, suspense
and thrillers but also am known
to write a poem or two.
recently found the pen again
and started writing. I love
horror, dark fantasy, suspense
and thrillers but also am known
to write a poem or two.
David grew up in a small town by the name of Mint Hill, one of many suburbs of Charlotte, NC. The
house he grew up in sat on a two acre lot and was almost completely surrounded by woods. Most of
his childhood he suffered horror stories about those woods (they were always made up, just to scare
nights lead him to have quite a mind for the dark and macabre. It wasn’t long before David embraced
the fear from those woods and those stories and began to create fantastical stories of his own in his
head. However, it would be a number of years before these stories ever saw the light of day.
David was the proverbial black sheep of his school and it was this fact that led him to begin to write
poetry as an escape from the automaton drones that walked the institutions halls. On top of writing,
David plunged head first into the world of hardcore, punk, and metal. It wasn’t long before these three
music styles began to shape who David would later come to be both as a person, and a writer.
After high school David made an attempt at college, attending the local community college. He quickly
realized he had no idea what he wanted to do and decided to take a break from school to venture into
the working world. It was also at this time that He laid down the pen and for nearly five years he wrote
absolutely nothing. Despite this fact, the urge to create stories never left him. Though he might not
have been lifting a pen or sitting at a keyboard, in his mind he was always writing.
After seeing the first Lord of the Rings movies, David quickly became a huge Tolkien fan and the fire of
writing returned, but once again it returned in the way of poetry. But this wasn’t what he wanted. He
knew he could paint pictures with words, but writing poems here and there wasn’t enough anymore.
That’s when he discovered the book “The Ninja” by Eric V. Lustbader. It was through Lustbader’s
poetic approach to writing stories that David saw he could use his ability to paint vivid pictures with
words to tell a story. Since that time he hasn’t been able to stop writing.
house he grew up in sat on a two acre lot and was almost completely surrounded by woods. Most of
his childhood he suffered horror stories about those woods (they were always made up, just to scare
nights lead him to have quite a mind for the dark and macabre. It wasn’t long before David embraced
the fear from those woods and those stories and began to create fantastical stories of his own in his
head. However, it would be a number of years before these stories ever saw the light of day.
David was the proverbial black sheep of his school and it was this fact that led him to begin to write
poetry as an escape from the automaton drones that walked the institutions halls. On top of writing,
David plunged head first into the world of hardcore, punk, and metal. It wasn’t long before these three
music styles began to shape who David would later come to be both as a person, and a writer.
After high school David made an attempt at college, attending the local community college. He quickly
realized he had no idea what he wanted to do and decided to take a break from school to venture into
the working world. It was also at this time that He laid down the pen and for nearly five years he wrote
absolutely nothing. Despite this fact, the urge to create stories never left him. Though he might not
have been lifting a pen or sitting at a keyboard, in his mind he was always writing.
After seeing the first Lord of the Rings movies, David quickly became a huge Tolkien fan and the fire of
writing returned, but once again it returned in the way of poetry. But this wasn’t what he wanted. He
knew he could paint pictures with words, but writing poems here and there wasn’t enough anymore.
That’s when he discovered the book “The Ninja” by Eric V. Lustbader. It was through Lustbader’s
poetic approach to writing stories that David saw he could use his ability to paint vivid pictures with
words to tell a story. Since that time he hasn’t been able to stop writing.
