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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Fiction</title>
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		<title>The many ways in which Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow directly inspired Neon Genesis Evangelion</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2012/01/19/gravitys-evangelion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read the well-known post-modernist novel Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon, and I noticed a number of surprising similarities between it and the well-known Japanese anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). In fact, there are so many similarities between the two, both thematically, stylistically, and plot-wise, that I am forced to conclude that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulse</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/28/pulse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank quickened his stride and took a leaping jump onto the waist-high brick wall separating the sidewalk from the field. Kathy rolled her eyes at him. None of the other students busily hurrying to or from their classes registered a response at all. &#8220;You know, this isn&#8217;t the playground at kindergarten,&#8221; Kathy teased Frank. &#8220;Yeah, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new, fictional direction for this site</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/15/a-new-fictional-direction-for-this-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve probably figured out by now, the past several months on Cyde Weys Musings have been characterized by my extreme inactivity. That wasn&#8217;t unintentional. I just had to make enough of a break from the old direction of the site in order to feel comfortable taking it in a new direction. Apparently, a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Want of a Bolt</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/02/15/for-want-of-a-bolt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[steampunk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So much for Her Majesty&#8217;s elite unit,&#8221; Lieutenant Nottingham said softly as he sank down into the canvas netting of the wall-mounted fold-up bench. The electric lantern above his head drifted lazily to and fro. &#8220;It was a great idea, only suffering from a complete lack of execution,&#8221; I responded, trying to find some humor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Humble Cloth</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/01/30/one-humble-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One night, on the precipice of sleep, a fragment materialized in my mind that I immediately aroused myself to record. It led to the following account: Why does this cloth billow so? It has seen the sunshine of many days and the darkness of many nights, the twilights of oh so many yesterdays. Yet with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the writing time of year again!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/26/nanowrimo-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Halloween is just around the corner, which means that it&#8217;s almost time for a full month of writing. Of course, I am referring to National Novel Writing Month, a &#8220;competition&#8221; in which people challenge themselves to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. This will be my fourth time attempting it. I&#8217;m pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We humans are quite full of ourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/self-obsessing-humans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is one of the conceits of our race that we are quite full of our own intelligence. Hopefully, one day we&#8217;ll run across a vastly more intelligent species and be put in our collective place. But until then, we&#8217;ll keep on calling our own intelligence the best thing since sliced bread &#8212; something, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The key to getting in the mood to write</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/29/the-mood-to-write/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/29/the-mood-to-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, William McCamment hit the nail on the head with this one: The secret to getting into the mood to write is to start writing. In other words, writing creates the mood, it does not wait on it. I can definitely empathize with this maxim. Even when I generally don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some excellent advice for budding writers</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/23/10-writing-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a budding writer, or even an established writer who still needs a bit of help, you should definitely check out the list of Ten Mistakes Writers Don&#8217;t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do). I&#8217;m intellectually aware of the existence of all of these mistakes, but my ability to put them into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Ghost Brigades&#8221; shows clear signs of Scalzi&#8217;s improvement as an author</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-ghost-brigades/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-ghost-brigades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently read Old Man&#8217;s War, it&#8217;s not surprising that I&#8217;ve just finished reading its sequel The Ghost Brigades. I liked Old Man&#8217;s War, but I found some significant flaws in it that hampered my enjoyment. Thankfully, most of those flaws were fixed in the sequel. The alien races aren&#8217;t nearly as implausible, not every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Man&#8217;s War: Decent, but not revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/24/old-mans-war-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/24/old-mans-war-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered John Scalzi&#8217;s blog Whatever a couple months back and I&#8217;ve been reading nearly everything he&#8217;s posted to it since. The name of the blog is blah, but don&#8217;t let that fool you. He&#8217;s been doing this blogging thing for longer than the word &#8220;blog&#8221; has existed, so the name of his site was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning out a science fiction short story</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/21/planning-out-a-short-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/21/planning-out-a-short-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I tried out a new ideation technique I sort of figured out on my own. Basically, I developed the shortest possible summary of a story, and then continued asking myself questions about more details of the story. As I asked more questions, some of the parts of the story became pretty fleshed out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar colony nomenclature</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/17/lunar-colony-nomenclature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/17/lunar-colony-nomenclature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I was musing about Lunar colonies on the commute home from work tonight, as I am often wont to do, and I came up with an apt name for humankind&#8217;s first permanent colony on Luna. Second Basket Think about it for a few seconds and you should get it. I know it sounds a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke heads off to that great Rama in the sky</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-heads-off-to-that-great-rama-in-the-sky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-heads-off-to-that-great-rama-in-the-sky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-heads-off-to-that-great-rama-in-the-sky/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is with much sadness that I learn of the death of Arthur C. Clarke at the age of 90 in his country of residence, Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke was the last surviving member of the trio of great golden age science fiction writers affectionately known as the &#8220;Big Three&#8221;, which also included Isaac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging and writing, a dichotomy?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/14/blogging-and-writing-a-dichotomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/14/blogging-and-writing-a-dichotomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/14/blogging-and-writing-a-dichotomy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hobb wrote a very thought-provoking piece on why she thinks blogging is evil, at least for writers. The argument goes that there&#8217;s only so much creative output one person can produce in a day, so any creativity going into a blog post isn&#8217;t going into writing a serious work. Blogging is easy; posts are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You got your zombie in my Pride and Prejudice!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/11/you-got-your-zombie-in-my-pride-and-prejudice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/11/you-got-your-zombie-in-my-pride-and-prejudice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the best contest ever: Take a paragraph from a book and add a zombie. Think about how that might work for a few seconds, then read an example of how it works with a Jane Austen novel. Pure awesome. I cannot believe nobody&#8217;s ever done this before. I shan&#8217;t be entering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Stay At Motel Z</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/16/a-stay-at-motel-z/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/16/a-stay-at-motel-z/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upper crest of the Sun languished above the horizon, casting the long rays and shadows of dusk across the scene in front of me. The sky smoothly transitioned from a brilliant swirl of purple and red near the setting Sun to a dark, dull blue on the opposite side. The palm trees lining the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting one of my terrible first attempts at writing science fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/09/attempted-scifi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a digital pack rat. I have everything I&#8217;ve ever written on a computer squirreled away on my current computer, including over a dozen years of homework assignments. It&#8217;s not too hard to do. Each time I&#8217;ve upgraded computers, I&#8217;ve simply copied the Documents folder on the old computer into the new Documents folder on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I really need to read more novels</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/12/01/i-really-need-to-read-more-novels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competing in (and winning!) 2007&#8242;s National Novel Writing Month made me realize something: I really need to read more novels. It&#8217;s pathetic how few novels I&#8217;ve read recently. I don&#8217;t remember reading even one in the past year. And when I was writing my own novel, I realized what a huge problem that is. See, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I did it!  I wrote a novel in a month</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/30/i-did-it-i-wrote-a-novel-in-a-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/30/i-did-it-i-wrote-a-novel-in-a-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a crazy month it&#8217;s been. Computer gaming has fallen by the wayside as the largest chunk of my free time has been poured into the novel I&#8217;ve been working on for National Novel Writing Month. But I did it! I just finished, and a day early to boot! Check out my erratic rate of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing in on completing NaNoWriMo</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/27/closing-in-on-completing-nanowrimo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/27/closing-in-on-completing-nanowrimo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Novel Writing Month, which I am competing in, ends on Friday, November 30th. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m only at 38,000 words. I need to reach 50,000 words to win. So I have three days left in which to write 12,000 words. Needless to say, I&#8217;m not going to have any free time for anything else. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo is half over and I am half done</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/16/nanowrimo-is-half-over-and-i-am-half-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/16/nanowrimo-is-half-over-and-i-am-half-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Novel Writing Month, which I am competing in this year, is now officially half over, fittingly enough seeing as how half of November is gone. Not so coincidentally, I just wrote word 25,000 of my 50,000 word novel. That means I&#8217;m on track to successfully complete NaNoWriMo on time! Amazingly, my pace is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The potential pitfalls of breakneck speed novel writing</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/03/the-potential-pitfalls-of-breakneck-speed-novel-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/03/the-potential-pitfalls-of-breakneck-speed-novel-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m 7,000 words into my novel for National Novel Writing Month and I&#8217;ve already learned quite a bit. But first off, allow me to brag a little bit. 7,000 words in three days is definitely ahead of the required pace to reach the desired 50,000 words within a month, so on that measure, I&#8217;m succeeding. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making progress on NaNoWriMo, and a GNU Emacs tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/01/making-progress-on-nanowrimo-and-a-gnu-emacs-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/11/01/making-progress-on-nanowrimo-and-a-gnu-emacs-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m making good progress on my novel for National Novel Writing Month, about my participation in which I&#8217;ve previously blogged. Incidentally, that previous sentence is a good example of why it isn&#8217;t a good idea to always obey the &#8220;no prepositions at the end of a sentence&#8221; rule, a rule I&#8217;m planning to make lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ready your quills for NaNoWriMo!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/31/ready-your-quills-for-nanowrimo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/31/ready-your-quills-for-nanowrimo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention aspiring authors, National Novel Writing Month begins tomorrow! For those of you not in the know, NaNoWriMo is a month-long self-guided &#8220;competition&#8221; in which hundreds of thousands of amateur authors attempt to write a complete 50,000 word novel within the month of November. The whole point of it is to get past the never-ending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion Day</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/10/05/invasion-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jana looked up and noticed an unearthly glow filtering in between the yellowing plastic planks of the boarded-up window. She had been reading a propaganda pamphlet to pass the time, but her attention was now completely diverted away from the insultingly patriotic text. She knew she was not able to see more than a sliver [...]]]></description>
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