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	<title>The GrogMonkey &#187; On Writing</title>
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		<title>Farm-grown Spam</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-04-04/farm-grown-spam</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SF novelist Jim Macdonald has an article, &#8220;Fence Your Stolen Content at Amazon.com&#8220;. He discusses the threat of e-books as becoming the new breeding-ground fir spammers and search engine scammers: &#8220;With the cost of self-publishing approaching zero thanks to e-publishing, and with content-farms being depreciated by Google, it seems that spammers have taken to e-publishing.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clickity-clack!</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-01-27/clickity-clack</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my English Masters program classmates posted on Facebook that he recently bought an electric typewriter, and posted pictures. My initial knee-jerk reaction was, &#8220;Heh, cool.&#8221; Then my first reasoned mental response was, &#8220;Wait, what the heck is a typewriter for? Why in the world have a typewriter? Would he actually use it? Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Being Edited</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2010-09-06/adventures-in-being-edited</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See the bottom for a very important update.) So, Moon City Review 2010 has been out for a few weeks now; I received my contributor&#8217;s copy yesterday. Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty excited and pleased. It&#8217;s the literary anthology put out by Moon City Press in conjunction with Missouri State University, and printed by the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The End of the Beginning&#8221; now released!</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2009-10-29/the-end-of-the-beginning-now-released</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new short story has been published! I&#8217;m, oh, just a little excited. The story, &#8220;The End of the Beginning,&#8221; is in the latest edition of M-BRANE SF magazine, issue number 10. You have a few quick, easy, and inexpensive methods of getting it: Visit this URL: http://mbranesf2.blogspot.com and on the right-hand side you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo, again. Maybe. Perhaps?</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2009-10-11/nanowrimo-again-maybe-perhaps</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I&#8217;ll be participating in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). And this time I mean it! The point of NaNoWriMo is to help people get past the blocks and barriers and hesitations and just write, dammit. Heck with editing (for now), heck with obligations and excuses for not having time, NaNoWriMo provides the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a novel, folks!</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-08-22/its-a-novel-folks</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Master&#8217;s thesis is a &#8220;creative thesis&#8221; since my focus is on Creative Writing, and I finally passed 60,000 words (aprox. 190 MLA formatted pages or 240 mass market paperback pages). Technically 50K is the minimum publisher accepted length for a novel with 80K being the generally preferred length especially for a first novel. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing on track.</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-04-14/writing-on-track</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote 25 new pages on my novel/thesis this weekend. A huge burst of productivity! And best of all, it got me past a certain bit of creative block and got me to an area that&#8217;s progressing the plot again. And it takes me to the beginning of a character development that the novel really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-04-09/fanon-and-its-review-from-a-postmodern-perspective</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the spirit of full disclosure, it must be said that I have not read John Edgar Wideman&#8217;s Fanon; so, it will be assumed throughout this essay that what the NPR book reviewer, Maureen Corrigan, has to say about it is accurate for the basis of an [...]]]></description>
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