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Journal Reboot - Peers & Peerless
December 21, 2004

I launched this site in February 1996--almost eight years ago--as a college freshman in the university computer lab. It was called "Alex in Wonderland" because it was a fanboy page that I didn't take seriously, and then "Kartania" when I was writing shared-world fiction for penny-a-word markets, and then "AlexanderWilson.com" because I wanted to be taken more seriously as a writer, and then "Alexander Wilson Studios" because nobody would publish my software press releases without the "Studios" name attached, and now "Alex Wilson Studios" because I felt like a pretentious ass publishing and acting under the name "Alexander" when everyone knew me as "Alex" or at least "hey you." But never "Alexander," even when someone's mad at me.

I started this journal in November 1998--over six years ago--just after I made my first writing submission for publication. What I was doing then is similar to what a lot of authors with "blogs" do now, though I imagine I was a lot more naive, a lot more vain, and a lot less frequent. While somehow I've had my share of regular readers, at times I've had trouble taking an interest in my own journal--which isn't a good sign.

When I moved Telltale Weekly to the MovableType platform, I tried to do the same with the journal, but I found I spent most of my available time reformatting the most popular old entries to work with MT, until I finally understood that the kind of writing journal I was keeping--that is longform essays on the creative life--wasn't very suited to the "modern" blogging environment, much less suited to the MT platform. After taking a short hiatus, I've decided on doing this REBOOT.

The journal, now called "Peers & Peerless: Adventures in Other People's Playgrounds," is my latest timesuck. And it's less about me than ever, at least until interesting things start happening for me again. Part review blog, part media/literature critique/discussion, this is my exploration of the worlds of other creatives, their masterwords and masterworks. Fiction. Nonfiction. Film. Games. Comics. Music. Creative tools. And the occasional meta-entry like this one just so y'all don't get spoiled by the greatness of those who have gone before.

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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say.

Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.



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