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		<title>Assembling Your Cast of Characters</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2012/02/assembling-your-cast-of-characters-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can think of your cast of characters as planets in orbit around the sun – the sun being the inner poetic truth of your story.  As the planets circle the sun, their gravity fields tug at each other’s orbits.  Each planet affects, and is affected by, every other.  They revolve in such perfect balance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create Compelling Characters</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/07/how-to-create-compelling-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revealing Character Story-telling is a process of EXPLORING DISCOVERING REVEALING Controversy:  Plot v Character What will happen next? Or What will the character do next? Plot only – engrossing but forgettable Characters only – may not be dramatic enough The Golden Mean &#8211; The best stories are a well-balanced blend of both. Why we love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gravity Pilot &#8211; Amazon Reviews</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/07/the-gravity-pilot-amazon-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[M. M. Buckner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orpheus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Helpful Customer Reviews 5 stars Buckner&#8217;s best work yet, July 9, 2011 By Julia Reynolds This review is from: The Gravity Pilot (Hardcover) From the book jacket description it&#8217;s not apparent that this is a hard SF novel, but that is what Buckner has delivered with Gravity Pilot. This is a layered story set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gravity Pilot &#8211; GoodReads Review</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/07/the-gravity-pilot-goodreads-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristie&#8217;s review from GoodReads [four stars] &#8220;The Gravity Pilot&#8221; is an excellent Science Fiction novel with many layers. It&#8217;s a love story (drawing loosely from the myth of Orpheus), a sports novel, and a dystopian tale. The main character, Orr, is an Alaskan skydiver who makes a record-breaking jump that catapults him to stardom. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Sharper Dialog</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/06/writing-sharper-dialog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“16 Rules of Dialog” Rules are made to be broken by their masters. &#160; 1.    Cut chit-chat, greetings and polite phrases.  Keep dialog lean and muscular. 2.    Speakers are not articulate.  Use vernacular, contractions, etc. 3.    Make different speakers sound different. 4.    Build dramatic tension with contrapuntal dialog.  Each speaker has his own agenda, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for More Abundant Writing</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/04/tips-for-more-abundant-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Writing takes TIME. Give yourself time. 2. Make a list of all the reasons why you yearn to write. 3. Look at it every day. 4. If you yearn to write, then you are a writer. Believe it. 5. Put writing first. Write when your energy is highest. 6. Get up early, or stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaping Scenes &#8211; The Heart of a Great Story</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/04/shaping-scenes-the-heart-of-a-great-story/</link>
		<comments>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/04/shaping-scenes-the-heart-of-a-great-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Craft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dramatic suspense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Scene? Just like in a theater, when the curtain rises…you see a scene.  Characters are moving and talking on a stage Act 1, Scene 1 – each scene has a beginning, middle, end. Scene is the basic unit of a story. The majority of every story is dramatized in scenes. So, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of The Gravity Pilot from Owlcat Mountain</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/04/review-of-the-gravity-pilot-from-owlcat-mountain/</link>
		<comments>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/04/review-of-the-gravity-pilot-from-owlcat-mountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While mythology is a rich mine for fantasy, it doesn’t often come into play in science fiction. That’s too bad, because science fiction as a genre carries many of the same themes and plot arcs as fantasy. So you can imagine how excited I was to find that M. M. Buckner has written a novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retelling the Truth</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/03/retelling-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carl Jung]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Harrison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you tell me why so many contemporary novels are based on ancient myths? You find examples not just in SF and fantasy, but in every genre. Seems we can’t get enough of the old world stories. But I wonder, in this age of quantum information, as we stand on the verge of a grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MM BUCKNER INTERVIEW with Paige Crutcher</title>
		<link>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/02/mm-buckner-interview-by-paige-crutcher/</link>
		<comments>http://mmbuckner.com/blog/2011/02/mm-buckner-interview-by-paige-crutcher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mm buckner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examiner.com interview with M.M. Buckner Interview by Paige Crutcher As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? First, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a riverboat captain, then a poet.  I started my first novel in the third grade.  Writing has always been my bliss. What do you think [...]]]></description>
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