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It's telling that I'm more into the first person narrative now because when I wrote the last two parts of the Danny King exercise it was in the first person and not third (and I've only just noticed). I've updated them now but it's created an awkward stiffness which I also noticed when adapting the original Don Findy piece.

I have now officially decided to stick with the first person narrative style for the rewrite of Don Findy as I think it suits the genre a lot better. Reading Chandler's The Long Good-bye has certainly helped sway my decision. It's hard to not be in awe of a writer that uses a description like this, 'He had short red hair and a face like a collapsed lung.'

I've also decided to stop the Danny King exercise as it has served it's purpose, making me write, and I'm no longer interested in it - and that clearly shows. If I hit anymore blocks I can always return to it. Plus there are a few ideas and bits of sentences I might reuse later.