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		<title>Much Needed Hiatus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew.. So it&#8217;s about time we&#8217;re posting something here, right? I mean I&#8217;m sure many of you have been expecting new blog posts, new podcasts&#8230; goodness knows whatelse! And here we are, not delivering any of that to you. It&#8217;s terrible, isn&#8217;t it? Things have gotten quite in our way with working on this project. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=114&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take it Slow: Writing My Novel with a Typewriter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lovely Fourth Of July (Go USA!) I got a little bored and decided to dust of the old, electric typewriter I&#8217;d bought at a garage sale a few years ago. Actually, I&#8217;m pretty sure they just gave it to me. Because who needs a typewriter when you&#8217;ve got computers? But I pulled it down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=109&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take it Slow: Writing is a Chocolate Brownie, not a Fast Food Joint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne H. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start this blog post by saying I have never been the kind of person to &#8220;slow write&#8221;. If I&#8217;m writing, I&#8217;m writing and I do it every chance I have. I want to get it done. That&#8217;s my only goal &#8211; finish it. Short stories? Finish it so I can edit it. Edit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=104&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a way, I&#8217;m going to be writing this post as a response to Conrad&#8217;s Heavy-Handed Themes post, so if you haven&#8217;t read that yet, you may want to. I&#8217;m trying to rebuild my novel&#8217;s plot as we speak and one thing I&#8217;m taking into great consideration is the purpose behind everything I create. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=100&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne H. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a weird confession to make. I&#8217;m a quirky reader/writer. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m the only one &#8211; but it&#8217;s still a fuss to get through. You see, I can&#8217;t read while I write, and I certainly cannot write while I read. If I&#8217;m in the middle of my own project &#8211; that&#8217;s where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=95&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to start off this topic with one simple sentence. I hate Atlas Shrugged. Why am I starting off a discussion of theme with a statement like that? Because Atlas Shrugged is an example of how to do theme wrong. In it, there is a three hour speech given by the character John Galt. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=93&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 02: Discovering Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>twoswordsonepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 02: Discovering Characters In which we discuss our individual methods for creating characters, and building characterization. ** Links discussed in the show: Young Writers Society: Character Development 20,000 Names Wordplay: Change is Key to Powerful Character Arcs (Suze wanted to say that she completely misremembered where this came from)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=82&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have a problem with in my work is repetitive themes. I was talking with Suzanne about this the other night. She mentioned that marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, seem to pop up quite a bit in the stories that I write. I can’t really refute that. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=76&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Resource: TV Tropes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.tvtropes.org TV Tropes is simultaneously both a blessing and a curse for writers. It is a blessing because here you can find many archetypes that are used in fiction and see examples of them. You can use this to help you include them more effectively in your own fiction. At the same time, however, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=70&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Blog Stats</title>
		<link>http://twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/crazy-blog-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne H. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our blog stats are out the window for yesterday and today. It&#8217;s crazy! You guys are coming from&#8230; well, I know where you guys are coming from! I thought I&#8217;d give a quick thanks to Snoink from the Young Writers Society for making out blog a staff pick. I didn&#8217;t feel like making my own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=twoswordsonepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14089196&amp;post=67&amp;subd=twoswordsonepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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