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		<title>Review: Cat Star Chronicles: Warrior, by Cheryl Brooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[tl;dr: If you&#8217;re a man, or a writer, don&#8217;t read this.  Just&#8230; don&#8217;t.  I can&#8217;t speak for women who don&#8217;t write. A friend of mine recommended the Cat Star Chronicles to me a long time ago.  After all, I write catboy/catgirl smut, I should be able to enjoy some of it.  So let me say off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2012/01/17/review-cat-star-chronicles-warrior-by-cheryl-brooks/</link>
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		<title>Devon Monk&#8217;s &#8220;Dead Iron: The Age of Steam, Book 1&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead Iron by Devon Monk My rating: 3 of 5 stars Devon Monk&#8217;s Dead Iron: The Age of Steam is a mash-up urban fantasy-meets-steampunk-meets western. Set in a 19th century Oregon small town facing change as the rail comes closer, Dead Iron is a satisfactorily well-written but by-the-numbers example of how steampunk ought to be written. In Monk&#8217;s formulation, the veil between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/10/30/devon-monks-dead-iron-the-age-of-steam-book-1/</link>
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		<title>Only erotica and George Lucas have celebration scenes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at an erotica writing workshop recently, and one of the women running the panel on characterization said that one of the scenes she likes to write is the &#8220;celebration&#8221; scene. That&#8217;s what she called it. The whole &#8220;We&#8217;ve been through a terrible time and survived. Let&#8217;s celebrate&#8230; by fucking!&#8221; I asked her about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/26/only-erotica-and-george-lucas-have-celebration-scenes/</link>
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		<title>Showing Too Much.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Show, don&#8217;t tell. It&#8217;s not just a great song by Rush, it&#8217;s a battlecry of writers everywhere to the raw recruits.  Over and over, we writers are told, it is import to show the story through the eyes of the characters, through the words they say and do, through the events they hear, see, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/17/showing-too-much/</link>
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		<title>When will it be okay to write gay villains again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was re-reading Diane Wynne Jones The Tough Guide to Fantasyland shortly after reading a forgettable spy novel from the mid 1960&#8242;s in which the villain was quite fey and enjoyed threatening the hero with sodomy before death and all that. Jones asserts that many fantasy parties have a gay wizard (paging Lynn Flewelling), who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/16/when-will-it-be-okay-to-write-gay-villains-again/</link>
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		<title>Good news, and apologies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just paid my server bill.  Look like y&#8217;all will have me for another year.  Thanks to everyone who contributed last year and helped keep The Journal Entries and my other works on the air. Also, I want to apologize to people who may have commented recently.  I seem not to be getting emails from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/16/good-news-and-apologies-2/</link>
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		<title>Nicholson Baker, House Of Holes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholson Baker writes three kinds of books: non-fiction, literary fiction, and porn. It&#8217;s odd that although he&#8217;s known for the phone-sex masterpiece Vox, the only thing I&#8217;d ever read by him was The Anthologist, a wonky first-person slow-moving story about a poetry writer and editor with a near-fatal case of writer&#8217;s block. It&#8217;s well-written and has a solid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/11/nicholson-baker-house-of-holes/</link>
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		<title>New Story: Journal Entry 129 / 1694, &#8220;Gabriel&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, a new Journal Entry, all for you! This story is M/M, man/dragon, and falls into the not-quite-a-story, more-of-an-anecdote category. Meaning there&#8217;s no plot, just some set-up to have some hard-core porn. But it also falls into the vaguely-resembles-a-real-life-incident category. Gabriel. This is a beta release.  I checked it for typos and have spell-checked it once, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/08/new-story-journal-entry-129-1694-gabriel/</link>
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		<title>Character names, a nifty trick for getting them right in contemporary writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you need a female character, a beautiful French assassin who&#8217;s 26 years old.  And you want her name to be right.  Here&#8217;s a nifty trick I tried and it actually worked: Go to google translate and say you want to translate from English to French, and your term is &#8220;Most popular baby names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/09/04/character-names-a-nifty-trick-for-getting-them-right-in-contemporary-writing/</link>
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		<title>Pendor Wiki deleted.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, I&#8217;ve had to delete the Pendor wiki.  I can&#8217;t afford a huge server, and this one was crashing because spammers were beating up the wiki code looking for weaknesses.  I appreciate all the work people put into it, and I&#8217;ve archived the content for the time being.  Maybe someday it&#8217;ll make sense to resurrect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pendorwright.com/2011/07/14/pendor-wiki-deleted/</link>
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