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		<title>A Research Note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hierarchy of writing-research starts with personal experience.    If you have ever cooked a meal,  mucked out a stall,  driven a car, or fallen out of a tree, you have a wealth of sensory inputs as well as intellectual understanding of those experiences available to use in a story.   You know, in the most direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1846</link>
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		<title>Braiding&#8230;Start at the Very Beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After multiple false starts, the braid is well on its way&#8230;and it gets easier as it goes along.    It would have been nice to be here a month ago&#8230;no, two months ago&#8230;but all the braids back then tangled into impenetrable knots.   And all because I kept starting at the wrong point.    If you mistake the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1843</link>
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		<title>Who What Where When Why (etc)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s taken a journalism class, or written for a newspaper, is familiar with the &#8220;Five Ws&#8221; which&#8211;canonically&#8211;are supposed to be at the head of the story.   Also with &#8220;inverted triangle&#8221; structure.    Most of the time, novel structure is not the same, but keeping readers oriented to person, place, and time is&#8211;for most, not all&#8211;important.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1838</link>
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		<title>Exclusive to the Paksworld Blog&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This prologue was written way, way back, in the days when I was writing Oath of Fealty and had no idea what the mysterious thing was, where it would turn up, or how it would function.    But it actually started farther back than that,  decades before I  started the first Paks book.    It started with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1835</link>
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		<title>We Have Title for Book V</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor has approved the title for Book V:  Crown of Renewal.    Scheduled to release late May 2014, though that&#8217;s always subject to change .   You will soon notice that title as a category (like, um, for this post.) The chapters I was working on today, supposedly sequential, refused to meet at the join (like badly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1832</link>
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		<title>Asking the Right Person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been struggling with a chapter&#8211;and specifically the first scene in that chapter&#8211;for weeks, off and on, in and around others.    It&#8217;s pivotal to a very important plotline and also to the chronological tangle previously  mentioned.   I&#8217;ve rewritten it.  I&#8217;ve written completely new versions, not looking at the old one.  I&#8217;ve cut and pasted&#8230;cut and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1828</link>
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		<title>Headdesk Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A:  When you get another email offering you a fantastic idea for a novel because the idea person admits to not being able to/wanting to/having time to write it, but is sure you could do it and then the two of you could split the no-doubt-substantial money. It doesn&#8217;t work that way.   But some people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1814</link>
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		<title>A Brief News Item</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you with an interest in publishing news already have heard,  NightShade Books is in the process of a potential acquisition.   NightShade published my short fiction collection Moon Flights.   The acquisition hangs on the percentage of Night Shade authors who agree to substantial contractual changes in existing contracts;  the terms are beneficial to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1811</link>
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		<title>Moral Complexity v. Moral Ambiguity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A listserv I&#8217;m on mentioned that a member had published a review of Game of Thrones in a major market,  so I wandered over to look.    Here&#8217;s the link: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&#38;id=1543&#38;fulltext=1&#38;media=#article-text-cutpoint I was impressed with the review on several counts, but the one I want to bring up here is the way other reviewers, critics, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1807</link>
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		<title>Nose to the Grindstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I&#8217;m pouring words into the files for Book V, so I&#8217;m not keeping up with everything the Punctuation Working Group is doing&#8230;.trying to check comments and email a few times a day, but not really able to concentrate on anything but stuff I can&#8217;t tell you yet.   (I should have been listening to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=1804</link>
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