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		<title>&#8220;Fail Better&#8221; and personal mottos</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/04/fail-better-and-personal-mottos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw a great quote today by a commenter over at Mark Watson&#8217;s blog by Samuel Beckett:
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
It&#8217;s from Westward Ho!, a play I&#8217;ve never seen, so apologies for having entirely divorced it from its context.  But as a standalone quote, it appeals.
I&#8217;m not much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make crumpets, attempt one</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/11/how-to-make-crumpets-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first attempt at making crumpets from scratch at home.  While not entirely successful (the crumpets didn&#8217;t taste very nice), I have however resolved to record for posterity my first attempt here.  That way, when I am a world-renowned crumpet chef (chef du crûmpé),  my fans and inevitable imitators will have some small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I learned in 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/12/31/things-i-learned-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot can change in ten years.
For example, ten years ago I would have rejected that sentence as the worst kind of truism.  Now, on the other hand, it&#8217;s a friendly, familiar cliche that does just the job I want it to.
Because a lot has changed in the last ten years.  On a global scale, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo over</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/12/04/nanowrimo-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much to my surprise, I managed to complete my NaNoWriMo novel, clinching the 50,000th word of the month some time after 9pm on 30 November 2009.
What to do next, I&#8217;m not sure.  But I think that come 2010 I will at the very least fill in the gaps, tidy it up and turn it into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo update</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/22/nanowrimo-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m way, way behind on my NaNoWriMo effort.  I should be at around 30,000 &#8211; but I&#8217;ve barely managed 20,000.  Tomorrow will be the make or break point&#8230; we&#8217;ll see.
To encourage myself (or just to waste some time), I&#8217;ve put my text through an analyser at http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp.
My novel has a readability level of 10.25.  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo: week two</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/15/nanowrimo-week-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did, perhaps, underestimate the consequences of taking four days holiday to Barcelona in the middle of NaNoWriMo.
At the worst, I thought that taking a four day break (at 1,667 words a day) out of the 50,000 word writing month would delay me, well, 6,668 words.
But one delay quickly leads to more delays, and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo and social networks</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/05/nanowrimo-and-social-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re employed by a marketing or digital agency, and want to get some first hand experience of what is at the core of the term &#8217;social network&#8217;, head down to the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesdays during November from 6-8pm.
I was there for a NaNoWriMo London write-in this week, which was an ample demonstration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five days in &#8211; NaNoWriMo</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/05/five-days-in-nanowrimo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/05/five-days-in-nanowrimo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five days in, and I&#8217;m definitely starting to feel the difficulty of keeping up 1,667 words a day.  I&#8217;m doing ok at the moment, coming in just under the guide wordcount of 6,667 for yesterday.
The Southbank meet-up was fantastic, and gave me a little peek into how surreal a concept it is that so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo &#8211; the first day</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/01/nanowrimo-the-first-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve completed my first day of writing as part of NaNoWriMo, and I&#8217;m now very excited to be taking part in what I&#8217;m sure will be an absolutely exhausting month of novelising.
I&#8217;m enjoying having the impetus to write without worrying overly about every little technical or factual nubbin.  I&#8217;m loving having the excuse to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo</title>
		<link>http://www.lukealexander.co.uk/index.php/2009/10/28/nanowrimo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve resolved that this year will be the year I join in with NaNoWriMo.  For the uninitiated, this is a global month of novel-writing, where everyone who has at some point considered writing a novel is challenged to actually write one during the month of November.  Last year they had more than 119,000 [...]]]></description>
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