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	<description>Eric Staggs: Copywriter, Screenwriter, Fiction and more</description>
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		<title>The Ultimate SEO Guide &#8211; really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that How-To books are the most written, most published books out there. It&#8217;s got something to do with our desire to share our knowledge, the fact that none of us truly knows it all and the further specialization of our modern-day workforce. Knowing this, I am always amazed at myself when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/08/29/the-ultimate-seo-guide-really/</link>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Game: review part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upon further consideration, I feel compelled to comment on the author’s use of space. Not outer space, just space in general. In my first review of Ender’s Game, I wrote about the story and Orson Scott Card’s political and social views. He’s a little right of reasonable, but dodges the crux of the issue quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/08/29/enders-game-review-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>From the Fiction Department</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fiction Department as Columbia College Chicago teaches a highly specialized form of creative writing called &#8220;Story Workshop.&#8221; This method consists of a a series of varied techniques quantified and classified, broken into digestible segments which, when used as a whole should make one a great writer. There are somethings they left out, but that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/08/28/from-the-fiction-department/</link>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the continuous urging of what seems like the entire western hemisphere, I finally picked up a copy of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. This masterwork from a renowned storyteller sits atop the “best” list of almost everyone I’ve ever asked about it. I suppose curiosity got the better of me. The last time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/08/22/enders-gam/</link>
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		<title>Cultural Mythology: Lite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the course of my graduate work, I am seeing increasingly frequent mention of Joseph Campbell and his work in cultural mythology. An understanding of the Heroic Cycle is important for all storytellers, especially writers. However, Campbell’s work infers through its very existence that all humans share the ability to tell a story or at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/07/28/cultural-mythology-lite/</link>
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		<title>summer heat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer came the same very year in the north. Started out slow, in tiny bursts. Flowers and trees seemed to shoot up from the earth when you had your back turned. Every time you scrutinized, they froze. Then, the bursts got longer and longer, the flora less and less shy, until finally the whole of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/07/28/summer-heat/</link>
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		<title>The Aviator &#8211; online magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s live! The first issue of the interactive magazine: Aviator! Featuring (among others) my short story, Space Whales. Check it out, read it. Tell the Aviator people you loved it and want to see more of me! (flash based) Anyhow, here it is&#8230;Space Whales via Aviator interactive magazine! Tell them how much you loved my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/07/19/the-aviator-online-magazine/</link>
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		<title>He bent more than air&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M. Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt at filmmaking washed up cold, literally, in Avatar: The Last Air Bender. Forgoing any actual casting for talent, Shyamalan’s cast delivered their lines like dalek automatons: “Exposition! Exposition! Exposition!” The story itself was interesting. Four tribes whose kung-fu was so strong it tied them to the elemental forces of nature. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/07/04/avata-airbender/</link>
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		<title>Alice In Wonderland &#8211; again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reluctant to watch the film, I&#8217;ll admit.  I wanted to simply let that one slide by. But, on a rainy night, with naught on my schedule but a potential hang-over, I called up the girl and we went to the late show. We go there early and fortunately, shared the theater with only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/04/30/alice-in-wonderland-again/</link>
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		<title>Clash of the Titans: review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When watching a re-make of any film, one cannot help but compare it to the original. While the original Clash of the Titans was a masterpiece of stop-frame animation and a cult-classic, it was also melodramatic, butchered three myths, combining the tales of Bellerophon and Perseus into a single jumble of mythical Greek goodness. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://somenewlanguage.net/2010/04/04/clash-of-the-titans-review/</link>
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