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		<title>NaNoWriMo Word Count &#8211; Day 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are progressing nicely, so far. I checked my word count on NaNoWriMo this morning, and was startled by the number (I&#8217;d forgotten overnight what I clocked in at last night). My first thought was, Oh my, look at this person&#8217;s word count, whose is this? Wait, this is my page&#8230; where did that number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=951&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vampire Wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not making this up. 
I&#8217;ve heard of Klingon weddings amongst Star Trek fanatics, but this is new. An Ohio couple had a unique Halloween wedding.

&#8220;Vampires&#8221; tie the knot in Columbia Township
Jack Holsinger, 61, of Lorain, married his vampiress, Connie Spitznagel, 44, also of Lorain, in a Halloween-themed wedding at the Rockin’-R-Ranch.
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Holsinger arrived at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=945&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Starting Gate</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/out-of-the-starting-gate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The NaNo Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[word count]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[cross-posted to The Nano Project
I&#8217;m off to a rollicking start on word count. Thanks in large part to attending a write-in, I clocked in at 3,337 words yesterday! Wow, I&#8217;ve never gotten that much in one day before. Even with the chatting and socializing and inhaling a sandwich, the distraction of surfing the net via [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=940&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tick-Tock&#8230;Tick-Tock&#8230;Game On!</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/tick-tock-tick-tock-game-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NaNo is upon us! 
Which means I probably won&#8217;t be blogging much for the next 30 days. Whatever free time I have will be going towards word count. Anyone for a word war?  
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With mere hours to go to the official start of NaNoWriMo as I write this, I have to admit, setting aside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=898&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macmillan Lowers E-book Payments to Authors</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/macmillan-lowers-e-book-payments-to-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More fuel for the fire. Macmillan is cutting royalties for authors on e-books to 20%, when the industry standard is more like 25%. John Sargent, CEO at Macmillan, sent out a letter to agents on Monday advising them of the change. Somehow the NYT got a copy of the new contract. 
Says Richard Curtis, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=927&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chokehold on Publishing</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/chokehold-on-publishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huffington Post has a sobering article on the state of publishing today:
What looks like a simple price war between Amazon, Target, and Walmart over a handful of bestsellers is symptomatic of a much deeper problem in the book business. The larger fight is really over what you get to read.
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One of the dirty little secrets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=916&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Música! Música!</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/musica-musica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always on the lookout for new music to write to. I never know where a new sound will take me, what thoughts it can inspire.
And so with that, I want to give a little shout out to a band I just heard about a week or so ago: Sunseth Midnight from São Paulo, Brazil. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=881&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Books and Ads</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/e-books-and-ads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here we go. I knew it wouldn&#8217;t take long before they started with this. To wit: Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s new e-book reader, the Nook:

And look what we have across the bottom panel: Ads! Right now they&#8217;re displaying books, but I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s easy enough to change. According to this article in Marketing Vox it&#8217;s only the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=875&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Obessessing over Characters&#8217; Names</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/more-obessessing-over-characters-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/?p=863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still at it, thinking about changing names again. I&#8217;m 75,000 words into my current WIP, the vampire novel I&#8217;m calling &#8220;Revenants Abroad&#8221; for now, and I&#8217;m still not 100% happy with one of the main character&#8217;s names. I&#8217;ve been testing a new name on her, but I&#8217;m not entirely happy with it, either. I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=863&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostly Roads and Haunted Locales</title>
		<link>http://fillingspaces.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/ghostly-roads-and-haunted-locales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Digital Dame</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venetian Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willard Library]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

It&#8217;s that time of year when everyone is trotting out stories of ghosts and hauntings. So let&#8217;s join in the fun.
Digital City has an article listing ten of the creepiest roads in America, reportedly haunted by everything from ghostly children to spectral dogs, Civil War soldiers to star-crossed lovers. Check out the ghostly locales at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingspaces.wordpress.com&blog=4149570&post=852&subd=fillingspaces&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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