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		<title>Easy Being Green Salad</title>
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I started in on this one today and my best helper ever, Malorie, woke up and asked a great question.
‘Can I help?’
Three wonderful words. In fact, next to ‘I love you’ and ‘free baby kittens’ they might be my favorite three words of all time.  My answer was simple, I love a helper in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding my new friends to sharks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick list of where to get started.  The first four blogs I followed and why I still watch them today.]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash – Kids think The Kindle is crapola. Kindle lovers disagree.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the iPad kill the Kindle or is it destined to sit on the shelf next to your Apple Newton?  Only time will tell.]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s counting?  My defeat at the jaws NaNoWriMo beast..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[21,136 words in 30 days and I’m a loser.  I think not.  First of all, I have excuses.]]></description>
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		<title>I get by with a little help from my NaNoWriMo friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  5 crazy game developers from Electronic Arts embark upon the NaNoWriMo challenge. Mark Lorenzen, Ryan Yokley, Andy Busche, Loel Phelps and myself push hard as we try to complete the worlds greatest writing marathon.]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Man &#8211; Chapter 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take a minute to read and comment about the first chapter of my NaNoWriMo book.  I'l be glad to return the favor.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking ahead. Are you sure you know your reader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with the marketing team at EA/Hasbro, has changed my viewpoint on how to approach my target market.  Now I'm starting to think about how to reach my readers and what they will want, not today, but 2 years down the road.  If you are not thinking about this you might be left out in the cold.]]></description>
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		<title>Brandon Dayton &#8211; Comic Book Artist</title>
		<link>http://dustinhansen.com/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Openers
Brandon Dayton, Video Game concept artist by day, comic book author/illustrator by night, clues us in on his process, cultural impact of comic and the fact that it “turns out creative stuff takes a ton of discipline, but I didn&#8217;t find that out until long after I&#8217;d set out on my path.”
[Dust] Brandon.  Thanks for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jasen Torres From Crytek and Crysis 2</title>
		<link>http://dustinhansen.com/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jasen Torres, seasoned Gameplay Producer for Crytek&#8217;s upcoming Crysis 2 shares his take on German food, the impact of his influences on his video game design, the trials and the joys developing story in complex games like Command and Conquer.  His list of shipped titles will blow you away as will his diverse influences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict -vs- Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can write a novel without Action.  You can write a game without Conflict.  What happens when the two come together can be magic.  A real, peanut butter in my chocolate moment.]]></description>
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