I have finally concluded “The Phoenix King”. It went on longer than I ever thought it would and probably didn’t need to be so long to begin with. Although, I had a great amount of fun writing every chapter of it and felt that it had literal arcs that focused on different things to keep it fresh. Or at leas to hope it did.

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Where to begin, because I know where I had left off. Early October I started a new job for the government, one could call it a career, but after a few weeks they felt that I was better suited for a higher position. This led me to becoming a 'Lead' within a department, which meant reading a large "SOP" (Standard Operating Procedure) and doing a lot of overtime to get ready for the position. It really took a lot out of me and it put a big hold on everything else in my life.

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These last two weeks I had dedicated myself to getting this new job, revamping my resume and going to two interviews for the position. I am happy to say that they have offered it to me which means I am over the moon at the moment on the possibilities this affords me. Full time, 401k, health insurance, paid vacation, and on top of all that it is a government job. I feel very fortunate for this opportunity, but it is also a job that I've done for the last 10 years which made me very confident in

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San Diego Comic Con. I've been going since 2003 and have been ever since. I get to meet artists and writers from an assortment of different media, every last one of them are incredibly genuine and humble. This year I focused mainly on buying art, while getting autographs from a few choice people, and I was very successful in achieving all I set out to do. I attended one two panels while there, the first being the KOTOBUKIA panel where they announced some of their upcoming releases. Which really

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Just as it feels like I'm getting things together, everything falls apart again, and that I am just posting between one excuse to another. Having fixed my computer I was ready to begin the task of 'catching' up on posting, but life got in the way again. This time it was a my sister in laws niece, being only seven years old, having been diagnosed with leukemia. Needless to say that this was very abrupt and shocking to their family, but also to ours as we are very close to them. My father in

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When it rains it pours. Say hello to my computer or rather my mildly expensive doorstop seeing as it is not longer wishing to function. While I am not computer wizard, I have narrowed down the problem to two possible scenarios.

1. I need a new motherboard.

2. The RAM sticks.

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Well I have nothing to say other than that I am continually inconvenienced by life in general. While fully recovering from my illness earlier this month, there had been a sudden change in management at my job to where the supervisor was fired abruptly and we were without one for quite a while. This literally compounded with three associates quitting and I being prompted to a assistant manager position. Which basically meant working 12 hours a day for three weeks early into May, training new

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I’ve taken March off for work related reasons, which included self-improvement on my part and getting back into shape for the manual labor that was involved. Juggled some finances, house got fumigated, applied to graduate, and a bunch of other adult things.

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My schedule has me working 6 days a week on top of a second job. I will apologize over and over again for lateness in posting, but I’m acclimating to this new schedule day by day. Eventually I’ll find the flow for it, but for the moment I’ll be finishing the next chapter via iPhone/Google Docs on breaks and lunch periods.

~Turtlehaus

The holidays have kept me busy, but I have two chapters out today. One that was owed last week and the one that is due today. To everyone, I wish a happy holiday, and well wishes to your loved ones.

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The next chapter will be delayed a few more days. Previous chapters were slightly delayed due to work and school. This particular chapter is delayed due to several reasons, but the biggest is self improvement on my part.

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While I am not gifted in drawing, I did pursue it for a time back in middle school, I was above average, but what I wanted to draw never seemed to come out right. I eventually transferred my time and effort into writing which is where I feel the most secure in my creative output. Fortunately, long lectures and boring classes have been a breeze to get by with some doodling I do for my stories. I have a notebook that I write down several ideas, plots, characters, backstories, creatures, lore, and

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The lateness in posting is due heavily on the the fact that my computer stopped working. Considering that it is a pretty decent computer, the problem turned out to be a RAM issue and the video card crapping out. Grand total was $500 to replace the necessary parts. All and all I will have the next chapter up today, Oct. 14, and quite possibly the next one as well. If only to make up for the time it's taken to sort out this computer trouble.

My apologies for the wait.

~Turtlehaus

I've changed the cover art of 'The Phoenix King' to one I felt better suited the theme I started with the previous two stories involving a character that depicted the main focus of the story.

Smoldering It Over has a picture of a Fire Pony, done by Raikoh-illust, he is quite talented and I recommend anyone to give his site a visit.

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I've taken ill these last few days, nothing serious, but it has crippled my ability to write anything comprehensible in regards to the story. To add to the excuses, classes have started again, coupled with work, which has given me even less time and energy to write.

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