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	<title>Sardonic Disconnection</title>
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		<title>A Few Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off this is a quick test to see how well MacJournal works. I was told it had issues connecting to privately hosted Wordpress blogs, but this seems to have downloaded me stuff just fine. Hoping this will post!
I’ve got two more minor edits left until I consider draft five of my short story, Bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2010/03/09/a-few-things/</link>
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		<title>Consumption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am defined by time. "Obvious!" I hear you say. Well yes, but I would say I am more so than others. Everything I've ever done has felt bound by time. It all has to fit in. All of it. I harbour great envy for those able to maintain an attitude so laid back that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2010/01/19/consumption/</link>
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		<title>Resolutions for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2008's resolutions were a grand success. I no longer have sugar in coffee or tea and I only drink skimmed milk if possible. In contrast 2009's were a total wash, but I did buy a house and graduate with a distinction, so things worked out in grand fashion.
Here's the list for 2010...

Write every day.
Eat better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2010/01/01/resolutions-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Fundamental Change of Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've decided to stop getting stressed over things I can't change. No. Really. Stop laughing... I'm right here you know!
Anyone who has spent any amount of time around me will know that anxiety is a good friend of mine. All those sad little thoughts mount up at the back of my mind until they spill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/12/03/fundamental-change-of-outlook/</link>
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		<title>Vampire Books, Brian Lumley and Metamorphic Proto Flesh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was discussing vampire stories, in the wake of the latest Twilight movie, and realised that I've not read nearly so many of them as I thought. So let's get a couple of things out of the way. I've not read Anne Rice, Dracula, The Vampyre, Twilight, 'Salem's Lot or any of the others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/11/22/vampire-books-brian-lumley-and-metamorphic-proto-flesh/</link>
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		<title>Oh Dear&#8230; and Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I kinda forgot my whole one or two posts a week rule for a while there. Can't say it'll change from here on out, but you never know. The whole purpose of this blog was to talk about writing, so when I don't have a lot to say about it...
We've started workshopping again, resurrecting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/11/09/oh-dear-and-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got the marks for my dissertation yesterday. To say I was pleased was an understatement. I didn't do so well in the first year of my MA and didn't expect to be able to recover. I did and, thanks to the kindness of the lecturers, I got what I wanted. Of course - I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/10/16/moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>The Human Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy fantasy. I love the visuals, that aesthetic and the escapism. But, most of all, the stories I love are those that show humanity at its best and worst. Fantasy allows a writer to extrapolate the real world to an extreme and explore the result.
Richard Morgan achieves this by setting his story, The Steel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/10/09/the-huma-connection/</link>
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		<title>Sitcom Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Spoilers ahead]
Q: What's the number one rule of a sitcom?
A: The characters don't change.
Take The Office (British version). Ricky Gervais put the nail in the show's coffin by having his character become tolerable.The American version on the other hand is still plodding steadily into the future on the back of Michael being zany... over and over.
So how does The Big Bang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/10/01/sitcom-law/</link>
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		<title>Disarming Fantasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very little fantasy seems fantastic any more. A sweeping statement I know, but it's true all the same. We're too comfortable with it. While the magic and advanced technology doesn't exist, for the purposes of stories, it may as well. Space ships, ray guns, zombies, dragons etc. are such a big part of our collective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samstrong.me.uk/2009/09/29/disarming-fantasy/</link>
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