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		<title>Dystopian author&#8217;s woes.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Cox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s getting hard to write dystopian fiction these days. Reality is reaching the point where some novels that paint a dystopian future feel more like literary fiction than science fiction. As of late, it seems that the powers that be &#8230; <a href="https://www.matthewcoxbooks.com/wordpress/2016/06/16/dystopian-authors-woes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-thumbnails'>
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		<title>Writing &#124; Dialogue Mechanics</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dialogue Attribution Characters in fiction writing often speak―let’s face it, a story would feel strange if the characters never said a word to one another. However, just throwing dialogue down on a page soon becomes a chaotic mess. Authors have &#8230; <a href="https://www.matthewcoxbooks.com/wordpress/2015/01/24/writing-dialogue-mechanics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-thumbnails'>
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		<title>A story that almost wasn&#8217;t</title>
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