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Finding my Ko – or How Nearly Getting Kicked Out of the Military Made Me A Better Writer
December 2005 – I had just been pulled off training early and recalled to the office of the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. At any moment now I would be called into then-Commodore Goldrick’s office to explain exactly why I should not be booted from both the military…
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Furious Fiction – May 2019
Alright. Dark Fantasy. Back on brand this month. As usual, 500 words, and a bunch of conditions. This month is was . . .strangely enough. . . a May theme! Aside from starting with an eleven letter word and having something running, it had to contain the words ‘Mayor’, ‘Mayhem’, ‘Dismay’,…
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A Hazy Memoir
I’m coming to the end of my Creative Non-Fiction subject at the moment, and while it might not be ‘on brand’ for my usual style, I’ve been feeling a bit guilty about not posting my April Furious Fiction story. So here is my replacement. It is two things; first of…
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The Amazing Intro of Into the Spiderverse
Alright, the movie’s been out for a while now and it’s kind of implied by the title, but. . . That’s right, there are spoilers in this post for the movie it’s discussing. Excellent. That should be enough waffle to give people the chance to opt out of they like.…
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My ANZAC Day
This might seem a little late, but after putting up a post on my Facebook site (one that was meant to be about two lines long, but somehow kept going), I started to get some calls, emails, and messages from people who could relate. People whose emotions around ANZAC Day…
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Drowned Earth Novellas Announcement
Pretty excited to see this all-Aussie spec fic collaboration start rolling out!
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Furious Fiction – Mar 2019
Another month, another 500 word (or fewer) story. This time it was a visual prompt, with an image of a laundromat. To be honest, it isn’t my strongest writing and I nearly didn’t post it up. But accountability is important, and this is as much my record of accountability as…
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Goals, Words and Resolutions
2019 – Year of the Bardling. Has a kind of ring to it (or at least it does in my hopeful mind). Therefore, this post is more to keep myself accountable throughout the year. I have a number of things I would like to achieve, and well, how better to…
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In Defence of Romance
WARNING: This gets a bit ‘ranty’. For context, I have a total of one romance across all the ideas, manuscripts and short stories I’ve written or are in the process of writing. Not one romance novel, one romance thread. One arc. That’s it. I am not a romance writer nor…
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Positive vibes!
Merry Christmas to all! Less than a week away now, and I can’t wait to see Mr 4 and Mr 6 opening their presents (Mr 6 always reads the card first), running around with their cousins, jumping in the pool, and then my favourite bit – when they crash out…
Nathan J Phillips 