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	<title>John Brown - the author&#039;s official site &#187; On Writing</title>
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		<title>How author Rachel Aaron wrote a novel in 12 days</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/02/how-rachel-aaron-wrote-a-novel-in-12-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not quite. It was 15. First read her essay “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day”.  Now read about her 12 day triumph in &#8220;12 Days of Glory&#8221;. Amen on the pre-writing! I&#8217;d be lost without it. LOST. Sketching out scenes beforehand makes them SO MUCH EASIER to write. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much does author Jim C. Hines make?</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/02/how-much-does-author-jim-c-hines-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear But-All-Writers-Are-Rich, Jim C. Hines is a hard working midlist author with a couple of fun series out. Hines reveals what he makes in his post 2011 Writing Income. More importantly he reveals what he&#8217;s been making for a few years. For more information on advances etc., please peruse my page on Writing Business Facts &#38; Figures. Sincerely, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 5: Hunt Zing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after you choose a genre, you still need to develop ideas for character, setting, problem, plot, and text. What do you do? How do you develop those ideas? The first thing you do is hunt zing. Feeding the beast Zing is any idea that turns you on, sparks your imagination, or stokes your desire. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 4: The Story Setup</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/generating-story-4-the-story-setup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I lied. I was going to get into idea generation techniques, but decided to do one more short post on development objectives. Actually, I suppose this is a technique. In the last post, I said one of the main objectives of your initial story development is to have the story to come to life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 3: Develop The 6 Core Parts, Start Anywhere</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/generating-story-3-develop-the-6-core-parts-start-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re going to build a house, you need to know what type of house you want and what you want it to do. A two-man tent is a house of sorts.  So are a suburban rambler, a New York high-rise, and a medieval fort.  Each is a bit different, even if they share elements. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Kindle save Asimov&#8217;s, F&amp;SF, and Analog?</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/will-kindle-save-asimovs-sff-and-analog/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/will-kindle-save-asimovs-sff-and-analog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[magazines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s widely known that total circulation (sales) numbers for the main science fiction and fantasy magazines have been dropping for years. For example, in 1983 Analog&#8217;s circulation was around 115,000. Asimov&#8217;s and Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, while not that high, were in the same general ball park. A lot has changed since then. Sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDF of presentation given at Heart of the West Conference</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/10/pdf-of-presentation-given-at-heart-of-the-west-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a delightful time delivering &#8220;Story Lessons from the Hunger Games&#8221; at the annual conference for the Utah chapter of RWA up in Park City. Especially enjoyed delivering a sweet dream telegram involving waxed chests Here&#8217;s the PDF as promised: Story Lessons from the Hunger Games RWA 2011]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 2: No Clue, No Solution</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/09/generating-story-2-no-clue-no-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/09/generating-story-2-no-clue-no-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want you to think about Ed Smylie, who helped save the Apollo 13 astronauts with his duct tape contraption. What if the authorities had come to Ed, but instead of saying, &#8220;Look, we need to fit the round CO2 scrubbers into the holes for the square ones,&#8221; they&#8217;d said, &#8220;We want you to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 1: Can You Create a Redneck Crapper?</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/09/generating-story-1-can-you-create-a-redneck-crapper/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/09/generating-story-1-can-you-create-a-redneck-crapper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bugatti Veyron Super Sports $2,400,000 Almost everyone reading this knows what they like in a car. We know what we want a car to do. We can talk about acceleration, voom-voom styling, and handling. Some of us could talk about how engines and transmissions and tires all work together to create those things. We could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Nielsen and &#8220;The Rules of Personality&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/07/jennifer-nielsen-and-the-rules-of-personality/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/07/jennifer-nielsen-and-the-rules-of-personality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Nielsen is the author of Elliot and the Goblin War, the forthcoming Elliot and the Pixie Plot (Sourcebooks, August 2011), and The False Prince (Scholastic, April 2012).  She&#8217;s also worked for many years with a troubled youth program. I recently sat in on one of her presentations on characters and personality at a writers conference and quickly [...]]]></description>
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