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	<title>Five Rings</title>
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		<title>The year in review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has nothing to do with worldbuilding month, but yesterday, my wife reminded me it&#8217;s officially been a year since I decided to become a writer. This seems like a very cakey occassion (hint hint, honey)!
I thought it would be nice to make a list of what I&#8217;ve accomplished so I can reflect back on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiirati architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay so a Magic system, check.
World, universe, and physics, check.
Religions with zany philosophies at odds with each other, check!
What&#8217;s next?
Well, Eliza was good enough to give us worldbuilders a list of topics to consider. How awesome is that? I figure I can just work my way down.  This is the way it starts-&#62;

Architecture
Art

literature
music
painting/drawing
poetry
sculpture
theater
use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there religion in Lura? -part two-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mysticism:
Roughly 80% of the people of Kassara are mystics. Nearly everyone goes through a catechism for the religion at an early age.
Mystics are expected to pray at shrines and keep &#8216;jigo jisho&#8217;, but probably only 30% of the followers actually do.
-The prayer shrines are abundant wherever there is civilization. They are pools of water with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there religion in Lura? -part one-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only truly governing religion is &#8217;superstition&#8217; in Lura, but it has manifested itself in many ways.
Atheism:
There are no true atheists (as we know them) in Lura. With religion simply defined as &#8216;a belief&#8217;, if you tried to claim yourself as one, it would be seen as a joke in Lura. Not believing in something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World of Lura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To kick off world building month, I thought it would be best to introduce you to the planet itself.
Should planets really be named? An interesting debate. There&#8217;s one main reason I decided to name mine:
If you don&#8217;t name your planet, your fans will. For example, Robert Jordan didn&#8217;t name his world for Wheel of Time, so readers dubbed it Randland (&#8217;Rand&#8217; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned some of the projects I&#8217;ve been involved with elsewhere, but this time I&#8217;m going to be involved with one that will unfurl right before your eyes. ^_^
Tomorrow, I will start participating in an event called &#8216;World Building Month&#8217;; the brainchild of the awesomely talented author Eliza from Tales of a Fantasy Scribbler. (Her blog is also snugly nested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pull up a chair. Have I got a grotesquely long-winded story for you&#8230;.
Once upon a time, before this blog came into existence, I was experimenting with software that magically &#8216;helps&#8217; you write your book.
When I first installed Dramatica Pro v4.0 on my computer, I was shocked to see &#8220;What is the title of your story?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dreaded questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few epochs ago, I mentioned something called the &#8216;questionnaire approach&#8217; to writing a book. The conundrum was I couldn&#8217;t answer those tough questions until I was ready to write the book, and I couldn&#8217;t write the book without being able to answer those tough questions.
When I mention I&#8217;m writing a book, I&#8217;m usually confronted with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 5th Ring: Seven Rays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fifth ring is the final destination of any set of energy.
Creating fire? Going to Hell? First ring.
Traversing a continent? Going to Purgatory? Second ring.
Crossing an ocean? Being alive? Third ring.
Flying? Projecting to the Astral plane? Fourth ring.
Launching into space? Going to Heaven? Fifth ring.
So the fifth ring represents our ideals; those destinations which we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One small step forward…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and one giant leap back.
Every time it feels like I&#8217;m making progress on my novel, something happens that forces me to reevaluate major plot points.
Like recently, I connected together the scenes I would need to bridge the middle of the book to the end, but a crucial question crept up: &#8216;Is it really necessary for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4th Ring: Air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elementally speaking, the fourth ring is simply &#8216;the atmosphere&#8217;, which is easy enough to visualize: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere. It is also our state of mind, our intellect, our subconscious, our instincts, and the scales that balance good and evil.
But metaphysically speaking, there&#8217;s a lot more to it.
It&#8217;s the etheric/astral plane. Projecting yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 3rd Ring: Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The third ring is our physical reality. It is also the classical element of water; what makes up the oceans, lakes, rain, and reservoirs&#8212;the water cycle. It is what living organisms are made of. It is the soul.
While it may seem destructive due to phenomenon like floods, lava flows, monsoons, corrosion, and landslides, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shmupdate…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, it appears I was counter-tagged by Steph. I hope this isn&#8217;t revenge for the shredding we did to each other&#8217;s writings :3&#8230;
This meme isn&#8217;t particularly riveting and probably thrown together by someone who barely has a grasp of the English language, so here&#8217;s the deal: I&#8217;m not going to tag anybody on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2nd Ring: Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d describe the second ring as an energy drawn from within the world. It is the energy surging through the mountains and flora that surround us. It is the Anima Mundi - &#8217;soul of the world&#8217;. Some people get this mixed up with the Etheric plane, as the energies are very similar, but the Anima Mundi is more like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meme’d by the Smoky One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems we bloggers sometimes have a civic duty to fulfill here in the blogosphere: to go horribly off-topic in the event that we are tagged with a meme. Not that being tagged is like jury duty or anything&#8230;
heheh&#8230;
At any rate, this viral meme has spread its way to me thanks to good ol&#8217; wizardsmoke. [...]]]></description>
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