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		<title>Bad Penny: two big sequences left plus list of pen names</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/05/bad-penny-two-big-sequences-left-list-of-pen-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 19:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you watching, I&#8217;m past the 65% point on Bad Penny. I&#8217;ve set the target at 90,000 words, but, of course, I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s exactly how long it will be. I have two big sequences left, one of which is the climax. My stats so far: Pre-draft development hours: about 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Penny &#8211; working title</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to tentatively call the first book in my Frank Shaw series &#8220;Bad Penny.&#8221;  This is the thriller I&#8217;ve been talking about. It&#8217;s a working title, so it may change. As for progress, I&#8217;m close to 14,000 words. Huzzah! And I&#8217;m having a blast writing it. Every day I look forward to my writing time. For those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Believe In Me, Cyber War</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/01/believe-in-me-cyber-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Man and a Team of Girls Back in 1964, Jim Keith took a job at an Oklahoma high school to coach boy&#8217;s basketball.  But when he arrived, the administrators changed their minds and gave his job to someone else.  Keith&#8217;s contract didn&#8217;t specify which gender he&#8217;d coach, just that he&#8217;d coach.  So they switched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nameless Thriller Started</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/01/nameless-thriller-started/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who check the progress bars, will notice that I&#8217;ve started the first draft of the thriller, which remains nameless.  Poor thing. You&#8217;ll also notice I haven&#8217;t finished the working outline. That&#8217;s because sometimes&#8211;well, often&#8211;I need to do some drafting to get the feel of the story and characters before I finish that working document. And also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The man will not be able to attend LTUE this year, alas</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2012/01/the-man-will-not-be-at-ltue-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2012/01/the-man-will-not-be-at-ltue-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was walking past the circulation desk of the Logan library last week, a woman, who had been tracking my movements, turned, pointed at me, and made a loud complimentary exclamation. I know you&#8217;re thinking she said something about my fabulous looks or the animal magnetism that pours off me sometimes in uncontrollable waves. But no, she was not talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curse of a Dark God is Finished!</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/curse-of-a-dark-god-is-finished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished the 10% edit, going from 205,000 words to 185,000, this morning and emailed the finished manuscript to Super Agent Caitlin who will perform various incantations before sending it off to ye Editors for review.  While that&#8217;s happening, I will be switching gears and starting the thriller. I&#8217;m looking forward to this.  Not only am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Dixon Leavitt does Hunger</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/artist-dixon-leavitt-does-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dixon Leavitt is an amazing artist. He recently emailed me saying: &#8220;Sometimes I just start sketching with no plan in mind. This just popped out. Thought you&#8217;d like to see it.&#8221; It&#8217;s Hunger from Servant of a Dark God.   Duuuuuuuuuuuude! Dixon explains the step by step of the creation of this painting at dixondoodles.blogspot.com.  You&#8217;ll want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halfway finished with 10% trim of CURSE</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/halfway-finished-with-10-trim-of-curse/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/halfway-finished-with-10-trim-of-curse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the 51% mark with my trim and have cut 10,000 words. Right on target. And I haven&#8217;t cut any story, just flab in the writing. Usually when I revise, I add words. I thought I wrote lean, but that&#8217;s clearly not the case.  Strangely enough, I have to say that I&#8217;ve enjoyed every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This pass through CURSE is done!</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/10/this-pass-through-curse-is-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, this feels soooooooo good. Here are the stats. 58 chapters 205,000 words I received the green light midway through April. Finished 27 weeks later. Looking at my time records, it took me a total of 345 hours to finish this draft.  And the lion&#8217;s share was new stuff.  This took less time than it normally [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2011/10/pdf-of-presentation-given-at-heart-of-the-west-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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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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