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	<description>Rob Goforth, creator of Lair of the Nerd and author of the upcoming Red Bargain fantasy trilogy.</description>
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		<title>Redefining &#8220;Big&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/08/redefining-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first city I designed for my fantasy world was Venn, a city that in my mind&#8217;s eye was about the size of Medieval York &#8211; a rough circle of about 1km diameter. For the Great City of Azinor though, the greatest city in my world, seat of the Ministerial Synod&#8230; I want to convey a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bargain: Onwards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/07/red-bargain-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the past several months I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life.. about what I can do with my life.  To be honest, part of me would love to be able to go and get a job and just work like a normal person.  But I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mappe</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/mappe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, as you may know, I&#8217;m doing my best to write a fantasy epic that I hope to get published properly and be like a real author or something. All fantasy epics need a map, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working on today.. It&#8217;s slow going because I&#8217;m effectively making it poster sized (much larger [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministratum &#8211; Prologue indecision</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/04/ministratum-prologue-indecision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the beginning of the prologue of my in-progress novel: The place where the thirteen High Judges met was not a place at all, in the strictest sense. That the table seemed to be circular and wooden, and that the floor appeared as though ancient dark slate tiles had been laid there centuries before was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministratum &#8211; A Matter of Mood</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/ministratum-a-matter-of-mood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes writing is difficult, and coaxing the words is a challenge that would try the most creative among us, and yet other times the words appear to come almost unbidden.  These times are special; stories can grow almost by themselves, like watching a skeleton grow flesh and come to life. I frequently find it interesting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Novel Update</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/another-novel-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning ahead is something some authors find hinders them, and restricts their characters, and prefer to just write from the beginning through to the end with only a light hand on the tiller. Myself, I am not one of those authors; I prefer to make sure I have a plan as well-defined as I can [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More Ministratum</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/more-ministratum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter thirteen is the part of my book that has been most heavily based on an afternoon of gaming so far, and consequently it has been one of the most challenging to write.  That seems paradoxical, however when you consider the difference between four friends having a laugh and attempting to create a serious high-fantasy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Ministratum Update</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/another-ministratum-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;m past the 65,000 word point, I cannot help but start thinking about the future, about whether doing this professionally is something that is even remotely feasible. Part of me still wonders whether the idea is still little more than a pipe dream, a delusion.  I&#8217;m trying to silence those thoughts, trying not to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration from Gaming</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/inspiration-from-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in one of my earlier posts how a series of table-top roleplaying game sessions developed into the design of the world and principles that is in process of becoming the novel (or series of novels) that will become  what I&#8217;m tentatively naming The Ministratum Cycle, pending a better name than that. Well, here&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ministratum Cycle &#8211; An Update</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/the-ministratum-cycle-an-update/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/the-ministratum-cycle-an-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the word count of my embryonic novel has passed the 62 thousand word point, which I&#8217;m told is meant to mean that it gets easier because I&#8217;m meant to be well past the difficult &#8216;getting started&#8217; point.  I don&#8217;t really feel that way though right now. My medication is being rather funny in that I&#8217;m starting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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