Dave’s interview for the Writer Profile Project went live on March 29th of last year. He talked about SmokeLong, acting, writing plays, being a dad, and more. Read it here. What has he been up to since then?

Dave says:

Because the name of this is “The Writer Profile Project,” I feel like I don’t have much to say about what I’ve been up to the past year. I did manage to write a whopping two flashes, though! One of them, Nothing, was solicited from a private office at Zoetrope by Miriam Kotzin at Per Contra, and appeared there earlier this month. I like the other one, too, but it needs some re-working. Two sounds pathetic, but it’s an increase in volume over the previous year.

I’m also done contracting at Microsoft, and started working for a very cool architectural firm in Seattle, building web applications for them. Through there, I learned about an event called Pecha Kucha, and I’ve presented work from SmokeLong there twice now. And I went back to speak about writing to high school students at my alma mater for their annual Writers Week. That was a phenomenal experience, one I still need to blog about. And SmokeLong is closing in on its fifth birthday, so we’re busily putting together a special issue to celebrate that.

And the boys are great. They’re nine and (almost) seven now. They’ve both become involved in mixed martial arts, and received their first belt promotions recently. I got a little misty presenting Cam’s belt to him, because I could see in his face how very seriously he took it. Zach’s less serious about it, but having a ball, and it’s hilarious watching him make running attacks on the punching bag only to go bouncing backward through the air onto his butt. Good times.