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	<description>Sometimes silence is the hardest lie of them all.</description>
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		<title>Borrow from Reality, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recommend you steal liberally from your own experience, people you observe, and people you read about.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=346</link>
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		<title>Six things I have learned about 6-month olds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six-month olds: laugh at your jokes simply for the joy of laughing with you make you feel both young and old at the same time let you know exactly how they are feeling have no fear (of putting anything in their mouth) eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy, play while energetic, and smile while happy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=342</link>
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		<title>August Story Starters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just an ordinary kid.  I stay up late, sleep in late, I like to take pictures more than be in them, and spend more time online than my parents ever thought I would when they bought me my first laptop.  Normal.  So why on earth did I win this award?  What makes me the&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=338</link>
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		<title>This last month&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Month in Review: Finished the last third of Jumper: Griffin&#8217;s Story Critiqued 12,000 words for my writing critique group My baby got an ear infection Read The Lightning Thief Lost 8 days of my life to a sinus infection Spent one weekend gathering letters of recommendation (thank you for the contributors) and writing essays for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=335</link>
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		<title>Borrowing from Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally, I wanted to put a lot more work into this post, but a sinus infection has robbed me of a week so there will be a second part to this post next week.  However, this cursed infection has given me material, real life material, which is what this post is supposed to be about, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=333</link>
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		<title>Characters and Gender Roles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently have been thinking about gender roles, both in real life and in fiction.  Like many, I grew up watching children&#8217;s programming &#8211; for me it was the early and mid-80s programming.  I watched Sesame Street, Smurfs, J.I. Joe, Transformers, Duck Tales, Chip and Dale&#8217;s Rescue Rangers, Inspector Gadget, Scooby-Doo, Scooby and Scrappy Doo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=331</link>
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		<title>Roh Morgon&#8217;s contest is ending&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roh Morgon&#8217;s characters who impact and Roh’s Character Contest #1 is ending on the 27th&#8230; two days from now.  If you haven&#8217;t been to her blog, &#8216;musings of a moonlight writer,&#8217; then you should head over there and try to pick up a prize while your at it.]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=319</link>
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		<title>Calling for help: forms of communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to compile a list of forms of communication throughout history.  The reason for this is to have a single stop resource for authors.]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Defining your characters through their speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To assume you don't write in a voice, and therefore refuse to understand you are placing your characters in a specific time and place, is to deny your readers the full experience of the story being told.  You must change your characters voice if they are not from the same place or time as you or the realness of the character (and the story) goes away.]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=307</link>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am working on an anthology project that will have me critiquing 92,000 words this month, and in my small group there is the potential for another 40,000+ words, plus I need to set aside time to work on my own fiction while maintaining a full time job, family, etc, so  I find myself strapped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rgarrettwilson.com/blog/?p=306</link>
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