A little bit of cross-promotion during my Christmas craziness lull

I’m about three dozen Christmas presents (a mild exaggeration, maybe) and various things behind, so I’m sort of sorry for the lack of updating, but only in the way that I’m sort of not sorry for being crazy-busy trying to get things done.  T’is the season to be a bit crazy, though.

On a positive note, my Wreck-It Ralph review is now up, here, on Onezumiverse.  Visit for my non-fiction/review skills, stick around to check out some really terrific stuff.

And while I’m linking things, check out Onezumi’s web comics, available here.  It’s presently on hiatus, so there’s plenty of time to catch up.  She, along with her husband Harknell and a number of other truly amazing people, founded and run the creator-focused convention Intervention.  It’s a chance for independent creators to get their work out there, to meet other awesome people, and it’s a generally good time.

And, on that note, I have Christmas presents to get back to.  Here’s wishing everyone a safe, happy holiday season.

Forgive my shameless shilling, but this is some pretty cool stuff

For my twenty-fifth birthday, which fell on the twenty-fifth of November (like it does every year, as it turns out, and that sometimes happens to coincide with Thanksgiving), my sister got me this really cool notebook for “Great Ideas”.  I imagine that was largely because there aren’t any notebooks specifically for “Ideas You’ll Probably Throw in the Garbage Later”.  However, I checked out the web site on the back of it and found all sorts of neat goodies for organizational purposes.

Because I like sharing, might I recommend checking out Knock Knock Stuff?  They’ve got specialized notebooks and planners and post-its and even chocolate bars with fun stuff on the wrappers.  Chocolate bars made even more fun?  I dare say I thought this to be impossible.  Just kidding, that’s just my inner, and outer, fat kid having fun.

Seriously, though.  A site worth checking out, and if you sign up for their newsletter thingamajig they even send you a coupon code for 15% off an order of $50 or more (which I should warn is an easy feat to accomplish).  I’d also add how holidays and whatnot being around the corner makes this site extra neat for all of the gift potential it presents (Dreadful, unintended pun; I’m so sorry.).

And, of course, I am in no way actually affiliated with their site, the people who run it, and so on, but I do happen to like a good, fun notebook or knickknack.

Writer’s Odyssey Part 2: Finding which voice best suits my writing

Better known as “How Phil wrote a lot of truly terrible, dry pieces of fiction before he started to write better, less likely to induce eye-bleeding, fiction.”

First, however, I hope a happy Thanksgiving was had by all.  I’d like to say I was in a turkey-induced coma.  In reality, the turkey I had chosen for dinner sprang to life, knocked me unconscious, and took me back to the vast and diabolical Holiday Fowl Empire.  It was an entirely unpleasant experience, and I’d rather not talk about it

So back to finding my voice.  Continue reading