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		<title>Fiction Friday #166</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay homage to my favorite author again in this week&#8217;s Fiction Friday story. I have been wanting to write a story &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/fiction-friday-166/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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		<title>Where are you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through this post over at the Write Anything site and came across the following list of questions at the end. They really made me think. So through the magic of copy / paste, I bring them to &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/where-are-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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		<title>Fiction Friday #165</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Fiction Friday prompt: Pick two established characters, either from your own work or others’. Now write the scene/story of their meeting. I had loads of fun with this prompt, writing it during two lunch breaks and finishing it &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/fiction-friday-165/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we share some common dreamsbut your nightmaresare my reality Originally posted 2008-07-12 07:01:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter No related posts.


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		<title>What genre best describes your work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I filled out an application – I guess one would call it more a questionnaire than an application, really – to contribute to an as of yet unnamed online magazine. For those of you who know that this very &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/what-genre-best-describes-your-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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		<title>How my writing career began.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember sitting in the small supposed dining room in my grandmother&#8217;s house on Lay Lake in Alabama sometime in high school. It was a two story home shaped like two octagons glued together. From the living room, you walked &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/how-my-writing-career-began/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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		<title>Life Path 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fiction Friday #164</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fiction Friday #163</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this one to my childhood friend Sarah, who got me started with poetry in the first place. This is actually the very first poem I ever wrote. I wrote it for her during a visit that she and &#8230; <a href="http://johnpender.net/2010/07/249/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>


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