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	<title>Finding the Words</title>
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	<description>a blog devoted to the art, craft, and frustration of writing</description>
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		<title>Robots are taking over the world&#8230; but oh, they&#8217;re so cute!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honda brought you Asimo, the charming, earnest little robot that surely wouldn&#8217;t think itself superior to humans. He so Zen and spiritual and stuff, I mean, he does yoga&#8211;he can&#8217;t be evil! If he&#8217;s the ambassador, we&#8217;ll stand by awwww-ing while they enslave us.
 I came across this very awesome video from Popular Science. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=67&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/robots-are-taking-over-the-world-but-oh-theyre-so-cute/</link>
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		<title>Still truckin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve posted, but I&#8217;m still writing. I tried to enter the &#60;a href=&#8221;http://www.writersofthefuture.com/rules.htm&#8221;&#62;Writers of the Future Contest&#60;/a&#62; (I know, L. Ron Hubbard, but it&#8217;s a pretty famous contest), but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to get my submission in time. I still have issues with revising, something I desperately need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=66&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/still-truckin/</link>
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		<title>Countdown to Nanowrimo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again. So flex those fingers, crack those knuckles, sit your butt down, and get ready to type type type!
For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Nanowrimo is a challenge to write a novel of 50,000 words in the month of November. No, it doesn&#8217;t actually have to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=63&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/countdown-to-nanowrimo/</link>
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		<title>No words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a fantastic vacation. A honeymoon, actually. Three glorious weeks in France.
I can&#8217;t complain. The only thing is, now that I sit down to write, I find  I have no words. I&#8217;ve made several false starts, forced myself to get&#8221;black on white.&#8221; I rather feel like a car sputtering to start.
I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=62&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/no-words/</link>
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		<title>All written out?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I feel a little emptied out, as if I&#8217;ve over extended myself. It&#8217;s odd, I didn&#8217;t really write more than usual, but I feel carved out. There are few words left rattling around inside, and little desire to write. Sometimes, like tonight, it just feels a little fruitless. My candle is just one more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=61&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/all-written-out/</link>
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		<title>Ack! I&#8217;ve lost it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, got a new tentative outline for my rewrite. But as I&#8217;m starting to write it, I suddenly find I&#8217;ve lost it. You know, it. The magical it. The sense that tells you what works and doesn&#8217;t work in a story.
Used to be I could just listen, or think about my story, and I&#8217;d get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=60&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/ack-ive-lost-it/</link>
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		<title>Plot plot plot!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking inspiration and much needed (and generously given) assistance from Jade Park, I decided to work on plotting my magnum opus. I studied several books, including Martha Alderson&#8217;s Blockbuster Plots Pure &#38; Simple, Nancy Kress&#8217;s Beginnings, Middles, and Ends.  Then I pulled out a stack of large newsprint, and started plotting.
I worried at first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=58&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/plot-plot-plot/</link>
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		<title>Uh&#8230; you mean like Lord of the Flies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know it&#8217;s slightly unethical, and frankly I can&#8217;t imagine what sort of waivers the parents signed, but as a writer of speculative fiction, I&#8217;m really curious about the new cbs show Kid Nation. 40 kids in Bonanza, Colorado, making their own town. 
It&#8217;s the psychology I find fascinating. What sort of emotions will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=56&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/uh-you-mean-like-lord-of-the-flies/</link>
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		<title>Ambiguity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting the message from folk that are kind enough to critique my stuff that they don&#8217;t like ambiguity. This is a problem&#8211;I do. Almost everything I write has some level of ambiguity. There are no good or bad guys. There&#8217;s no evil. This is a bigger problem in fantasy, especially, where for the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=55&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/ambiguity/</link>
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		<title>A new tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I nay-said (that&#8217;s a word, right?) the writing program Scrivener  on Fluent. Well, I checked it out anyway, largely because I have a Mac book without any word processor (except TextEdit). I&#8217;m two days into the 30-day trial and I have to say, I&#8217;m liking it.  For someone as scattered as me, it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=findingwords.wordpress.com&blog=824908&post=54&subd=findingwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://findingwords.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/a-new-tool/</link>
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