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David Oppegaard's Documents
Taste Press Release
Press Release for "Taste", a new short film Written By David Oppegaard and Directed by Todd Wardrope
Category:Creative WritingReads:48Uploaded:10 / 03 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionKnocking Over the Fishbowl
When escaped mental patient Wilson Scrags is turned loose on the idyllic suburb of Hungry Hollow, all manner of crazy misadventure follows as he meets new friends as strange and troubled as himself.
Category:Books - FictionReads:464Uploaded:01 / 10 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionA Very Opie Christmas
A short, illustrated picture book about the Christmas adventures of my cat, Opie. It will both harrow and warm your soul!
Category:HumorReads:209Uploaded:12 / 26 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionNumb Nuts
Poor Numb Nuts is just trying to get through life, just like the rest of us...
Category:Short StoriesReads:177Uploaded:11 / 05 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionThe Amnesia of the Desert
An essay about researching my novel Wormwood, Nevada, originally published in The Nevada Review. A harrowing, surreal tale of the desert!
Category:EssaysReads:277Uploaded:08 / 10 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionAll Hail Drunken Blogging: The Best of Deep Thoughts With Blogagaard
I first started blogging because I was traveling a lot and found that a blog was an easier and more approachable way of updating friends and family back home about my travels. When I stopped traveling, I found that I still had the urge to instantly share my thoughts with the electronic world. So I started a new semi-daily blog called Deep Thoughts with Blogagaard www.blogagaard.blogspot.com Jesus, I had no idea of what kind of addiction I was getting myself into. Here I am nearly six years later (and over 700 blog posts) and I’ve actually decided to compile two anthologies of my favorite posts and throw them up on the web in their own little package. In Volume One: 2005-2007, come along with Blogagaard as he muses on writing and life and escapes his basement studio apartment, only to find himself in strange new worlds, beset by the horrors of Twin Cities life, work, getting published, zombies, the upcoming apocalypse, and an extended visit from a fictionalized David Sedaris.
Category:EssaysReads:666Uploaded:06 / 28 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionTaking a Stand: The Hard Work of Fictional World Building
World building is not just for gamers and medieval festival enthusiasts—it’s a part of fiction, too. Every novel creates a world of its own. As soon as the author has written the novel’s first sentence, they have created a chasm between reality and a new, more pliable reality on the page. It doesn’t matter if the book becomes George Orwell’s 1984, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy, or The Great Gatsby—as soon as the...
Category:EssaysReads:460Uploaded:03 / 26 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionTo Leave This World
A young woman joins an alien cult in California to escape her own life.
Category:Short StoriesReads:316Uploaded:11 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionEverything is Okay
Just your typical frantic drive to soccer practice with the kids.
Category:Short StoriesReads:258Uploaded:11 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionUptown Love
A true account of a night at the Uptown VFW involving arm wrestling, popcorn, and girls.
Category:HumorReads:350Uploaded:07 / 31 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
