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		<title>Blogging Time Dilation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things may seem to be moving slowly, but really it&#8217;s just this blog. Since returning from the trip, additional work obligations have reduced the amount of time I have free to post here. I will post when I&#8217;m able, but articles will be less frequent for the time being. Twitter has a smaller time-impact for <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/blogging-time-dilation/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Offline This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traveling this week. There will be more posts in a few days! &#8212;&#8211;I have returned. Good trip, lots of driving, plenty tired. The blog also seems to be having some troubles, but I&#8217;ll track down what&#8217;s causing the timeouts in the next few days.]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/705/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Chats for Readers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my earlier post on Twitter Chats for Writers I&#8217;ve compiled a listing of chats for book readers. A few of the chats are genre-focused and of interest to both writers and readers, so I&#8217;ve also copied them to this listing. If you are unfamiliar with how Twitter chats work, please see <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/twitter-chats-for-readers/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/twitter-chats-for-readers/</link>
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		<title>More Twitter Chats for Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve updated the Twitter Chats for Writers post with information on #writersmovement, #fridayflash, and #5MinuteFiction. More hashtags used for unscheduled &#8220;slow&#8221; chatting about writing have been added into a new separate section in the post.]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/more-twitter-chats-for-writers/</link>
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		<title>Sidebars and Categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attempted to do some sidebar restructuring this evening in order to add a new related posts box for those posts that could benefit from it, but constant DreamHost timeouts and downtime quickly turned a simple set of changes into a real hassle. Most of the updates are finally done; I&#8217;ll save the detail polish <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/edits-in-progress/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Scifi Writing Prompts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for an idea to spark your creativity?  Stuck on your current stories and need a break?  Try one of these twenty science fiction standards to prompt your imagination.]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/08/20-scifi-writing-prompts/</link>
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		<title>Self-Publishing Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a <a href="http://www.bradegeland.com/">friend of mine</a> recently about self-publishing options.  He's wanting to put a <a href="http://www.bradegeland.com/books.html">project management ebook</a> together.  The subject seemed to be a nice topic others could benefit from, so I wrote up the gathered information in the post below.]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/07/self-publishing-options/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worldbuild in a Vacuum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worldbuilding is a key component to fiction writing, but to what extent you construct your fictional world can vary greatly. Some stories are set in exotic fantasy locales with thousands of years of history, fully mapped geography, and unique languages. Others are relatively contemporary settings with just a few &#8220;changes&#8221; to explain to readers. All <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/07/dont-worldbuild-in-a-vacuum/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of a Villain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Brayden Hirsch posted a nice article titled What Makes a Bad Guy Bad that got me thinking again about the villain&#8217;s role in a story. I come back to this topic now and then as I think the best of heroes are defined by their villains, but I don&#8217;t feel the inverse <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/07/the-role-of-a-villain/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinhatch.com/2010/07/the-role-of-a-villain/</link>
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		<title>Scifi Tech of Today, Part 2 of 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second part of this series on science fiction technology is about energy fields. Manipulated energy in one form or another has been a catch-all plot device in scifi for decades. It especially serves as stand-in solution whenever a more solid explanation of the action is unavailable. Science continues to advance with science fiction in <a href="http://kevinhatch.com/2010/07/scifi-tech-of-today-part-2-of-9/">more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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