Friday Feature: @51buked50

Dearest readers and writers,

As you may recall, we posed a challenge several weeks ago that asked:

If there was just one writer here that you'd like to know more about, who would it be?

Your votes were cast and interviews were distributed accordingly.

This Friday Feature is based upon a nomination by one of your fellow Prosers. Who is @51buked50? Where is he from, and what does writing mean to him?

David Burdett was born in Bellflower, California. A suburb of Los Angeles. He was kind enough to provide a detailed interview which has been excerpted here for your reading pleasure.

"I've held just about every shit job under the sun with the exception of mopping asphalt.

"When I was in elementary school we used to have these book fairs where various authors would come out and talk to us and read these books that us kids would write and bind between two sheets of cardboard.

"I remember this one author speaking to our class and afterward he singled me out and told me I was a writer. He was a very intense guy. He looked like John Steinbeck.

"Some people learn how to fuck by looking at pornography. I learned how to not feel so alone through reading and writing.

"I plan on keeping on with the poetry but know that it's time to start focusing more on writing short stories and a novel.

"I have a tendency to get sidetracked and sometimes it's hard to just get the hell out of my own way.

"Prose has gotten me back into the swing of writing. I had hung it up for quite some time for personal reasons but it feels good to create again. Aside from the words and a couple of friends, honestly, what else could you need?"

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