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

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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.

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

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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 →

My personal writing odyssey: part 1

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This idea started rattling around in my head earlier today, when I had more pressing things to focus on and couldn’t get away from them long enough to actually start writing it.  Now that I’ve been whipped into a murderous frenzy by student loan-related affairs, here goes nothing.

I’ve been thinking about writing.  How I got into it, where I’d like to end up with it at some point (realistically and unrealistically), and what I’m doing to see what I can make possible with it.  Of course this also means I’m making the ballsy assumption people will be interested in reading about my life, but I’m also taking the liberty of applying the “this is my blog so I’ll post whatever I want within reasonable parameters because it does have a theme and that theme is not pictures of cats doing silly things” (even if I do love me some wacky cat antics).  I’ll probably even just use the cut feature on these posts so it doesn’t show up as a freaking mountain of text.

Naturally, I’m going to start this series of posts with when I started writing (because this isn’t an episode of Doctor Who, people, and so you’re getting things in a relatively poorly-remembered chronological order).

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