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		<title>Generating Story 5: Hunt Zing</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/11/generating-story-5-hunt-zing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
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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>Testicles and the Zing Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diana rowland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Rowland of MagicDistrict.wordpress.com invited me to guest blog. I was happy to provide &#8220;Testicles and the Zing Life.&#8221; Testicles do not taste like chicken. I know this thing. At least the ones taken from cattle don’t. But this Nobel prize-winning discovery is not what’s important. What’s important is why I know this. Read more. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Why capture zing if you don&#8217;t use most of it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree that the ability to develop and finish a story is more important, and rare, than coming up with or capturing random ideas, especially since &#8220;ideas&#8221; can be something as small as a two word sentence from your daughter or the colors on some weird bug that you found hiding out in a teacup [...]]]></description>
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