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About Me Senior Member General Fiction Writer Phillip M.E.24/Male/Australia Group group avatar #Writers-Workshop
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Pieces that have been published in online/print journals around the world.

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My various (newbie) attempts at photography :B

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Only the heat of the coin remain. Hands emptied, he waggles his fingers Only the heat of the coin remain. Hands emptied, he waggles hi...


Oh come on, you requested critique on this? Well okay, if you insist... L1 I'd find a new word for 'flies', since '...

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Cats and rejection

Mon Nov 16, 2009, 6:15 PM
I've got a new story up over here. It's a bit of a strange one. The original prompt was 'classic', and if you've read my other recent story you might see a trend in how I take these prompts and twist them to completely unrelated destinations. Honestly, I wish I could just write a straightforward interpretation. One day, one day.

The new piece is up as a result of being rejected by a publication I submitted it to. Rejection's a strange thing. With a piece like that, I don't take it too personally. It was an experiment into a kind of plot line I've never done before (and can't readily give a name to), so as an experiment it didn't really hurt so much when the apology came through the e-mail this morning. Naturally, I want to know what parameters in the experiment caused it to go awry (if being rejected by one publication can be called awry; I know a lot of people would just shrug and submit to another place). So if you can, leave a comment so I can give this one a new set of eyes when I next sit down to it.

Question time: what do you do when you've been rejected? In anything, though writing-related responses would be preferable. (:


In other news: Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, The Eels, God is an Astronaut.

  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: Eels -- Dirty Girl
  • Reading: Mayor of Casterbridge

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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 four 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, The Clearfield Review, 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, laptop

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so, what the heck. seems like all the guys who were new around the time of the beginning of my absence or whatever are old-hat now with little things by their names.
:iconballistyc:
hey thanks a lot for favouriting my "æouroboros" sculpture.
take care...drive safely

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Surgically removed myself from myself with 83% success
:iconjade-pandora:
Congratulations on receiving your latest DD! I also can't believe I don't have you on my watch -- I'm redressing the oversight right now.

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Congratulations on your Daily Deviation! :) I've placed a link to it in the sidebar of my journal page.

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Founder of =Inked-Page | Staff for *100ThemesChallenge, *ProsePlease | Lit Critic at *devCRIT
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congrats on the DD =)

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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

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