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This is a guide I wrote for people heading into deviantART literature for the first time. It's meant to have a little humour in it, but the observations should be taken seriously. Hope it helps people interact more effectively with the community here on dA!

slightly back

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 29, 2009, 7:10 PM





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In my 'absence' (really just a dimmer switch on my activities) I've been hanging around the forums mainly, just to keep myself amused on lunch breaks when the internet blocker I installed lets me have a peek through the veil. For the first time in ages I sat in bed on chat and had a fun time talking to all the folk in #cabal.

I'm still slogging my way through the university thing. My thesis is due in nine months, so I have the same amount of time to gestate a baby-weighted slab of A4 as others do to produce a human being. Doesn't seem so hard by comparison.

Flash Fiction Month is coming up and although I might be late to the party, I'm seriously considering it. Most of my publications have come about through 365tomorrows, Steve Smith's excellent site, so I feel I owe the form some lovin'. Given the group of people involved in it, I strongly advise you get stuck in there, you can only improve your writing if you do.

So, what has everyone been writing lately?

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  • Mood: Eager
  • Listening to: Opeth.
  • Reading: Life of Pi.
  • Watching: American Dad.
  • Playing: TF2
  • Eating: Muffin.
  • Drinking: Coffee.

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My name is Phill and I'm a PhD student operating out of Perth, Western Australia. I've been here on dA for quite some time, and have been involved in all sorts of activites including, but not limited to: hosting a workshop at *Writers-Workshop, drunken teamspeak story deliveries, hosting multiple competitions including the Ugly and Dream Journal contests, watching almost a dozen GD/GMs do their time, being the patron of three clubs (one of which even survived), alias trolling the forums, posting ill-thought-through dramallama-tastic journal entries, suggesting about a dozen DDs, receiving two DDs myself, moving accounts once, being staff at *ProsePlease, !suture, =Wordspill, and ~LitFFS, quitting dA twice, coming back twice, declaring jihad on the ';P emoticon, and much much more. I'm aligned strongly with the camp that uses dA to try and improve their writing through feedback, but I'm as open to entertainment and socialising as anyone that joins the wild and wooly world of the forums and chats!

I've been spending progressively larger chunks of my spare time working on my stories. I'll let the reader make the call as to whether the extra time has been effective. :B

I'm always on the look out for being part of collaborations with visual artists. Whether it's providing the wordy part of your comic series, or something a bit more experimental. Give me a shout if you think I'm your man (:

My publication credits include Voiceworks, Soundzine, 365tomorrows, and verb-ate-him. I really want to boost that record this year with submissions to a bunch of publications, but in order to do that I've got to write the words first!

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  • Current Residence: Perth, Western Australia
  • Tools of the Trade: Lamy

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*simeberg:iconsimeberg: 3 days 12 hours ago
Slightly back? Yay.

I, also, am slightly back. Partly due to a bored, drunken desire one night to post a journal related to said alcoholism, but mostly cos of Flash Fiction Month.

So? Are you going to splash your toes in the shallow waters of miniature stories?

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*mystical-machine-gun:iconmystical-machine-gun: Jun 28, 2009, 2:28:51 AM
I forget why you added me to your deviantwatch, although I'm thinking something about Kant might've had something to do with it. Anyway, since you've not reciprocated my interest in your work by completely ignoring mine, this is just to say I'm removing you from my devwatch, and me from yours.

Buhbye. :bucktooth:
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=fraterm:iconfraterm: Jun 12, 2009, 11:55:26 AM
MAN your webcam pic! It makes me exclaim.

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~Turner-Maxwell-Books:iconTurner-Maxwell-Books: May 10, 2009, 12:38:09 AM
Dear Apocathary.

We do not SPAM. There is no SCAM. But we are a well known website.

1 out 3, not bad, but you could do better.

Turner Maxwell Books offers no fees, no charges, just great books. We are committed to publishing great literature.

You write yourself?

Best wishes
Turner
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