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		<title>English civil war story: writing a treachery and violence scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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This post looks at writing a scene for a story about the English civil war that involves treachery and violence between the intelligence agencies of the Royalist forces and the Parliamentary forces
I&#8217;m pretty convinced that each army in the English civil war had its own intelligence agency (although they would not have been called by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil war scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This English civil war scenario, an episode from a short story which I&#8217;m writing, recounts how an officer in the Parliamentary army (what might nowadays be called the &#8216;pro-democracy Parliamentary army&#8217;) somewhat brutally recruits men for the army by subjecting them to the cruel realities of the battlefield.
It can be linked to my short story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The chat room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this draft short story or maybe novel is the relationship between internet chat rooms and government intelligence agencies; the basic plot is that a surfer discovers a sinister chat room which the intelligence agencies aren&#8217;t aware of.
If you would rather go directly to the episodes of The Chat Room, rather than read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme etiquette</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I owe the idea of extreme etiquette to an American writer and to a World War 2 novel which he wrote
Sadly, I can&#8217;t remember his name, or the title of his novel, which is pretty unforgivable as it&#8217;s a good book.


But basically one of the characters in the book, a GI who has been deployed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye webcam girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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It has elements of what is sometimes called the &#8216;human condition.&#8217; This can describe any of the conditions which humans experience, but this story describes the human condition of optimism, or rather misplaced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The British once sent missionaries overseas to convert `the natives&#8217; to Christianity but now it is the British who are the natives that need converting &#8211; or rather converting back, to Christianity.&#8221;
This is Pastor Jim Meirs, previously of Texas but now the pastor of Erie, Suffolk, England, talking  end-of-busy-day pillow talk to his wife.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gooch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smoking story is one of those stories with a &#8216;twist&#8217;, or surprise ending; it&#8217;s also an experiment into whether it&#8217;s possible to write a story that is so short it can be read without without scrolling down a web page
One thing I discovered is that it can be done but it restricts description and character [...]]]></description>
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