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		<title>A Twist of Enjambment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love poetry. But when I learned poetry appreciation in elementary and secondary school, emphasis was placed on meter, and literary devices, and figures of speech. It wasn&#8217;t until my first year of university that I formally learned to read poetry for meaning and emotion. I think this exploration of poetry should be reversed or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Edge of Magic: Story Building, World Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 08:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Late January, 1996. A fire broke out in my apartment building, damaging the hall below the one I lived on and the apartment next to mine. I was absent, fortunately. That weekend I attended a short fiction writing workshop led by Candas Jane Dorsey at the Black Cat Guest Ranch in the Alberta Foothills. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Motifs, Tale Types, Mythemes and More</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/motifs-tale-types-mythemes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2019 03:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How does your story work? Can you take elements from it to transform other stories? Can you mix elements to create new immersive experiences? I love breaking down stories and poems to see how they tick. This probably stems from my elementary and secondary schooling, but a big motivator for me is jubilant curiosity. Stories [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Creation: The power of role playing to engage, market and connect</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/role-playing-engage-market-connect/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, up to age 16, I loved to play, master and create Dungeons &#38; Dragons games. The thrill of these games for me lay in the act of creating stories, places and characters while designing and playing the games. This thrill complemented and fed my drive to write, which by this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Review: Sapling: The Broken Halls by Dan Gillis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 23:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two years ago I reviewed Dan Gillis&#8217; debut novel, Sapling: The Blade of Ahtol. This was the first book, in a series of four, set in a world built for many series. The book was great. It is the kind of epic fantasy, equal to Tolkien, Brooks, Card and Rowling, that I love to read. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Edge of Magic, the Land of Tals and a Soundtrack</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/edge-of-magic-and-a-soundtrack/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I described a dream I had of mapping several of my magical-realism shorts together to create a world and a short-story collection. This post is an update of my progress. Since the stories are fantastic folktales — magic-realism shorts, I decided to title the book The Edge of Magic and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: Melhara with Jocelyn Tollefson</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/interview-melhara-tollefson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once again the Write Group is proud to announce the publication of one of our member&#8217;s works, the third book from our group in as many years. I have the pleasure and honour to introduce and review this novel and interview its author. Melhara Review Melhara is the debut dark-fantasy novel of Jocelyn Tollefson. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>World Creation: A Book From a Map</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/world-creation-a-book-from-a-map/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For fifteen minutes after every lunch when I was in grade six, from her desk in the far front corner of the room, Penny Gwillim read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to our class. I was already a storyteller by then, but those stories read by Penny Gwillim inspired me to write. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: The Blade of Ahtol with Dan Gillis</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/interview-blade-of-ahtol-dan-gillis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am honoured to announce the publication of a new epic fantasy and to present my second interview on this blog. My last interview, with Malyn Mawby, featured her incredible scrapbooking and blogging journey, 10minutes, for the Art House Projections 2012 Sketchbook Project. This interview features Dan Gillis, a good friend and member of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blogging The Write Group</title>
		<link>https://stefras.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/blogging-the-write-group/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnurban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 23:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Write Group has a new blog. We have moved from our wiki on Wikispaces and expanded into our blog on WordPress. The Write Group is a writing club with members who write fiction and non-fiction in either prose or poetry forms. We write in many genres and write everything from two-liners to novels. Some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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