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		<title>Redirect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi! This is my last post. All new posts will be at http://5-Rings.com/blog so please update your bookmarks. (It&#8217;s still a little messy over there. Pretty soon I&#8217;ll have a post up about what I&#8217;ve been doing these past few weeks.) Prev: 8 Rules to Beginning a Story &#124; Next: http://5-Rings.com/blog<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=869&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Rules to Beginning a Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve been writing scenes and posting wordcounts, I&#8217;ve gotten away from something important: How did I come up with this stuff, anyway? After all, wasn’t the whole point of this blog to share the creative writing process? &#8220;Where is your story supposed to start, really?&#8221; is one of the toughest questions to answer. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=844&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/8-rules-to-beginning-a-story/</link>
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		<title>Liar, liar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat down and got everything set up to continue writing my short story. And (Wouldn&#8217;t you know it?) I couldn&#8217;t get my mind off of Five Rings. Well, one thing lead to another. I ended up with five more scenes for my book. And the experience was orgasmic. The words were flowing from the wellspring of narration, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=820&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/liar-liar/</link>
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		<title>The dizzying world of words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s so many words. Sooo many. I come across words I&#8217;m not 100% sure of the meaning of every day. It&#8217;s kind of pathetic &#8212; I pick up a book, I read a few lines, then I have to put down the book in order to look up a word or phrase I wasn&#8217;t sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=810&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/the-dizzying-world-of-words/</link>
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		<title>Scenery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling guilty watching people type 50k words in a month, so I wrote a few more scenes. :P 1st &#8211; Lhasa joins up with Shanung, Eth, Mourn, Cyronil, and Marrow. They leave Shiira, sneaking out Lhasa who, since he is a nameless, cannot legally cross gates within the gates system, effectively becoming a rat. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=807&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another emotional hit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I just wrote two very important scenes that ended up changing the lives of Shanung, Mourn, Cyronil, Eth, and Marrow in very profound ways. What’s wonderful is that the event tugs at heartstrings quite a bit. I remember this particular part making me blink out a few tears when it first came to me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=800&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/another-emotional-hit/</link>
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		<title>Pinin&#8217; for good writer blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all! Some news: I took the time last night to get the wordpress.org software working on 5-Rings.com ^__^ So if you&#8217;d like to visit the mess or see how things are coming along, just head to http://www.5-Rings.com/wordpress Also, I&#8217;d really, really like it if some of you could share your favorite writer blogs. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=796&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/pinin-for-good-writer-blogs/</link>
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		<title>A pillar of smoke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two more scenes. In the first, Cauinn is at the Feast of the Eight. She finds herself thinking about Cirellio and, in particular, his unusual Fatalist religion. People dine, music is performed, games are played, drinks are passed, speeches are spoken, the children of the third culture make general asses of themselves, and, later in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=788&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/a-pillar-of-smoke/</link>
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		<title>The rooftops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The location page got a hefty update. The characters page got a minor one (I&#8217;m going to update that more, soon). Since I came up with a lot of those names on-the-fly, feedback is most definitely welcome. Especially if anything I named there also happens to be the name of a rare foot disease, or whatever. Anyway, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=757&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/the-rooftops/</link>
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		<title>Happy NaNoWriMo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure a lot of you are pounding out words per minute for National Novel Writing Month. This year&#8217;s the first year I could&#8217;ve joined up (I didn&#8217;t even know what NaNoWriMo was, this time last year). I didn&#8217;t join up this year, though, because I&#8217;m taking my own slower-than-nano pace at Five Rings, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=745&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/happy-nanowrimo/</link>
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		<title>What the letter said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shanung has a meeting with some of his most trusted members. There&#8217;s Mourn, a woman of the &#8216;third-culture&#8217; (a group of rebellious young Shiirati that dislike the old traditions they were raised on). There&#8217;s Cyronil, her boyfriend that she indoctrinated into the third-culture. There&#8217;s Eth, an analytical, highly intelligent man who&#8217;s only ambition is to study literature abroad. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=739&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/what-the-letter-said/</link>
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		<title>Letters delivered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read this before&#8212;and I should have suspected it would come naturally like they said&#8212;but I felt like an average person looking into some sort of glass room full of untouchable writers each time I&#8217;d read it. The idea was a pleasant, comforting thought for me. But it felt too alien, like it was doubtful it would ever come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=728&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/letters-delivered/</link>
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		<title>Stars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cirellio enters Shiira, ties off his horse and gets hydrated. He wanders the city until he finds his target, a building called a &#8216;relic house&#8217;, which is much like a city museum. Before long, people start flocking south to prepare for the Feast of the Eight, but a woman appears to be following him. No matter how many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=717&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/stars/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday To Me!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, it&#8217;s my B-Day. I&#8217;m twenty-nine years old now&#8212;just one more year &#8217;til I have to start claiming I&#8217;m &#8216;young-at-heart&#8217;. Anyway, G got me a lovely present: http://www.5-Rings.com There&#8217;s nothing there right now. Nothing but liquid-concentrated potential. Am I allowed to squee? ^___^ Prev: The assassin and the guardian angel &#124; Next: Stars<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=710&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/happy-birthday-to-me/</link>
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		<title>The assassin and the guardian angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scene 7 cont&#8217;d: Originally I had the last scene and this part merged together as one scene. I was thinking of splitting them, but that&#8217;s no good to do this early in the book&#8212;this scene is the first real emotional hit and the reader might be like &#8220;Okay&#8230; so why are we paying attention to these two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cirellio.wordpress.com&blog=3137081&post=702&subd=cirellio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://cirellio.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/the-assassin-and-the-guardian-angel/</link>
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