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		<title>Novel 3: Before The Absolute Beginning.</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/12/novel-3-before-the-absolute-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just dished out my novelette, &#8216;Branching Out&#8217;, to some beta readers and will be starting the 4th draft of my 2nd novel, &#8216;Broken Branches&#8217; which means soon I will have nothing else to write about, so now&#8217;s a good time to think about starting a 3rd novel. I was in this position in November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptop vs iPad&#8230;Laptop Wins!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a grown man and I&#8217;ve just spent time cutting out teeth to create this photo of a laptop eating an iPad. I need to get a life. Anyway, writing machines, which is best? I love both and I did give my iPad an honest go of being my go-to scribing tablet but it didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOAppsWrite &#8211; Mac Writing Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man! Am I the laziest blogger ever?! Been writing a short story, &#8216;Branching Out&#8217; which is a prequel to my second novel &#8216;Broken Branches&#8217;. Originally thought it would be 2,000/3,000 words, so far I&#8217;m on 8,500 and it&#8217;ll clear 10,000 easy (which classifies it as a &#8216;Novelette&#8216;, apparently). Also, between the last post and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Clarity is Strength, Understanding is Peace, Humbug is Ignorance.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/08/clarity-is-strength-understanding-is-peace-humbug-is-ignorance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read &#8216;Why I Write&#8216; by George Orwell and within the essay &#8216;Politics and the English Language&#8217; lie the &#8216;writing rules&#8217; sometimes quoted on Twitter and elsewhere online. It&#8217;s an interesting essay where he points out that jargon, unoriginal metaphors, padding and &#8216;humbug&#8217; are used increasingly in politics and creeping into other literary arena&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing &#8216;The End&#8217; is my motivation.</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/07/writing-the-end-is-my-motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[@iainbroome posed the tweet; About to record WfYL podcast. Quick poll: what motivates you to write? I replied; Finishing something I created. Finishing is what really gets me on the laptop and hitting those keys.  I could think about ideas and story-lines all day without lifting a finger but compiling all those ideas and story-lines into some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Book Cover Designers! Classic eBooks Need Your Help!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought an iPad, downloaded the iBooks and Kindle apps and started scouting for freebies. What I found was a wealth of copyright expired classics swaddled within the damp, soiled rags of negligent designers. In this day and age, classics should be treated with a little more care and attention&#8230;and here is my idea. Amateur, student, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retweet #alltweetingandnowritingdoesntgetmepublished to Win a Tshirt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t blogged in nearly a month because I&#8217;m still going through the 2nd draft, nearly finished. Anyway, in the meantime I thought I&#8217;d give away this tshirt in a blatant act of whoring to get some more followers on Twitter and blog visitors. I also run a menswear blog and WeAdmire sent through this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Book Day, Book Night and Book Season!</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/03/world-book-day-book-night-and-book-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/03/world-book-day-book-night-and-book-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all going off in the world of books at the moment! Today is &#8216;World Book Day&#8216; and Saturday is &#8216;World Book Night&#8216;, not on the same day.  I don&#8217;t make up the rules. On book night you can attend an event and get given a free book chosen from a limited selection.  If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing vs Real Life</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/02/writing-vs-real-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think, &#8220;What the hell am I doing, who the hell do I think I am?&#8221; You know those first few episodes of X-Factor or Britains Got Talent where some self-deranged idiot has convinced themself they can dance/sing/act/juggle but are quite plainly rubbish?  If only they&#8217;d recorded themself sing, they&#8217;d realise! Sometimes I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do your feelings towards your first novel change after your second?</title>
		<link>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/01/do-your-feelings-towards-your-first-novel-change-after-your-second/</link>
		<comments>http://www.b3n3llis.com/2011/01/do-your-feelings-towards-your-first-novel-change-after-your-second/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in that sweet spot situated between completing the first draft of my second novel and giving it some breathing room before I go back and see if it&#8217;s complete jibberish or not for the second draft. I&#8217;m choosing to think positive thoughts at the moment&#8230;la, la, la! In trying to clear my mind of [...]]]></description>
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