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		<title>I put my write hand in, my write hand out – in, out, in&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/i-put-my-write-hand-in-my-write-hand-out-%e2%80%93-in-out-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've just read this on The Intern (which looks to be a good blog, both useful and entertaining):

    Lack 'o' identifiable conflict (especially in the first few chapters) is a major problem with first drafts.

That's a relief. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=328&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A dead horse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I told you some time ago that if you didn't see many blogsposts here, that was a sign things were going well with the Slog - all the words were going into that instead of into Travel Hopefully. I lied. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=320&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve found out I need to plan.</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/ive-found-out-i-need-to-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Plan. This is why: you have to make the reader care about your characters first and then beat them up. The characters, not the reader – though s/he should feel beaten up by proxy, when it happens.

And while living close to my characters (by spending part of every day in their company) I haven't been able to bring myself to do the beating up [... ...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=316&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plans &#8211; nebulous and, yes, hopeful</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/310/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Couldn't find the Big Pink Book this morning. I didn't worry ... i'd already decided not to write today.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=310&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something learnt about golems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When i wrote about golems on the Travel Hopefully Blog, i had no idea it would become my top grossing (as it were) blogpost ever. Nearly twice as many visits as any other post. Just saying.
 
Posted in The TH Slog Tagged: blogging, golem, Travel Hopefully Blog      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=307&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nine hundred and thirty-three today.</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/nine-hundred-and-thirty-three-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six thousand, nearly seven thousand in Chapter Eight. Running total to the nearest ten: 58,590.
 
Posted in The TH Slog       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=304&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vanity blogging?</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/vanity-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of documenting my Slog is not, honest, it really is not, just the public diary-keeping aspect. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=301&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eight hundred and fourteen words written and typed up today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday i caught up with myself: typed up two days' scribbles plus a bit left over that hadn't been typed before the summer. I've set myself a new target of nine hundred words a morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=298&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long time no Slog</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/long-time-no-slog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting back into the swing by using Storybook, which helps. (So much that i'm adding it to the Slog sidebar.) A lot of what i'm using it for is 'unassigned scenes' (not sited in a particular chapter) filling in pointers that hint at what's to come, but aren't in the ms because i wasn't hinting when i wrote it because i didn't know about that Metaphysical Subtext. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=294&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A definition of my own</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get bored with definitions: what poetry is, what art is. But this came to me.

When you stir up life a bit, it swirls and rushes – a shallower stream because it has not carved a deep channel by long flowing in the same place – and when you keep this turbulent water unlidded you will see the bubbles frothing on top. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=289&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cracked it! :0)</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/cracked-it-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mand</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember that metaphysical subtext? The one that had to be there but only made its absence felt 20 or 30 thousand words in? I&#8217;ve got it!
Well &#8211; not in substance, yet, but i finally know what it&#8217;s about.
So it&#8217;s not exactly that i&#8217;ve opened that door&#8230; It&#8217;s opened just a smidgen, not quite enough to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=287&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogbreak</title>
		<link>http://travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/blogbreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What she said.
 
Posted in The TH Slog       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travelhopefullyslog.wordpress.com&blog=5807013&post=286&subd=travelhopefullyslog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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