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		<title>LTUE 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time at LTUE (Life, The Universe, and Everything) &#8211; the BYU SciFi and Fantasy writing conference &#8211; this past weekend. I had been debating on whether to go, but finally decided to at kind of the last minute.
I really needed to hear Dan Wells&#8217; presentation on plotting and pacing. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Rejection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post, I wrote about sending off my short story. Well, I just got a response back yesterday. It was a no.
But, the note was kind and didn&#8217;t totally tear down my dreams of fame and fortune.
It said: 

Thanks for submitting your story to IGMS. It had some good qualities, but in the end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2009/07/29/path/first-rejection/</link>
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		<title>First Short Story Submission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, last night I sent off my first short story submission to Intergalactic Medicine Show. It is a bit frightening.
I originally created the story at Liberty Hall Writers as part of a flash fiction contest. I liked the story but haven&#8217;t done much with it for a couple years.
Then, I needed something for my Writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2009/05/19/path/first-short-story-submission/</link>
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		<title>Starting a Writing Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started a writing group in my area. We critiqued each other&#8217;s stuff for the first time earlier this month, and I have to say that it was a great experience. It got me moving on my writing and should make it so that I write more regularly (creatively, not necessarily on my blogs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2009/03/16/path/starting-a-writing-group/</link>
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		<title>Lightning Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my classes do a lightning write activity this week, and I realized that I never shared the one I participated in at the Codex retreat (CoWW).
For this activity, you need a group (a group of 6 works pretty well). Each person has about a minute to write the beginning to a story. Then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/10/07/writing/lightning-write/</link>
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		<title>Restarting tree.love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After taking an unintentional break from this short story that I started at CoWW, I&#8217;ve come back to it within the past couple weeks (first, because it gave me something fun to do during class when I had the students doing peer reviews of each other&#8217;s papers; and second, because I keep telling myself to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/26/path/restarting-treelove/</link>
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		<title>1001 Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: Cool &#38;  Cool &#38;  CoolI just got back from teaching my Writing for Digital Media class, and I went through Orson Scott Card&#8217;s 1001 ideas in an hour with them. It worked out really well. I&#8217;m not nearly as good as OSC at pulling more and more ideas out, but we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/22/writing/1001-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Peanut Butter and Jelly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I had my two composition classes do the old describe the steps for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich exercise.
It went very well, especially in the early morning class (they are just better, more engaged students overall).
We did it because we were talking about informative writing, speciifically instructions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/09/19/lessons/audience/peanut-butter-and-jelly/</link>
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		<title>CoWW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ June 25, 2008 to July 2, 2008. ] Codex Writer's Workshop.

I anticipated this event for a long time.

The first few days were for critiques of novels and short stories, as well as some class sessions on writing and being a writer. We had the famous Ellen Datlow critique our short stories. She was very insightful and gave lots of comments to everyone. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/07/28/hero-journeys/events/coww/</link>
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		<title>How I Revised Transfer Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I got the story revised (a couple months ago  ), and I thought it would be useful to talk about how I did it.
But first, I think you need a little background on how I wrote it in the first place.
I wrote the story as part of Orson Scott Card&#8217;s bootcamp. This means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herojourneys.com/2008/07/16/path/how-i-revised-transfer-loss/</link>
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