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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic You know you are a writer when... in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:21:50 -0400</pubDate>

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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Free reading and cheesecake in the forum Fantasy</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:42:51 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hope/' rel="nofollow ugc">@hope</a> Haven&#8217;t been on Kingdom Pen for ages because I haven&#8217;t had time to check back regularly, but I saw this notif and was touched to see you included me in the ten people even though I am a terrible person. Been super busy and couldn&#8217;t do anything ugh.</p>
<p>Will definitely read it and get back to you with feedback! (Warning: might take a really long&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-44002"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/free-reading-and-cheesecake/#post-35403" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic My Latest Short Story in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:22:38 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Email please? <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/sarah-h/' rel="nofollow ugc">@sarah-h</a></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Escribiendo en Español in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:11:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/sarah-h/' rel="nofollow ugc">@sarah-h</a> ah, gracias. Yo sé que Español de España y America Latina son diferente. Es como ingles de Americana y ingles de Britain (?). Una día yo quiero ir a España, pero es muy (far away). Es más fácil por ustedes, porque ustedes pueden ir a la México o America Latina. </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Escribiendo en Español in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 06:43:28 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/gretald/' rel="nofollow ugc">@gretald</a> Yup, I do that except the other way. When reading books with French in them, I understand the French by using my Spanish knowledge.</p>
<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/sarah-h/' rel="nofollow ugc">@sarah-h</a> the &#8216;yo&#8217; form of corregir is corrijo. Sí, Chinese es my difícil. Yo prefiero Español, pero en Singapore necesitamos aprender lengua de madre. </p>
<p>Yo deseo saber, por qué ustedes usan &#8216;entender&#8217; par&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-26959"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/escribiendo-en-espanol/#post-18262" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Escribiendo en Español in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/escribiendo-en-espanol/#post-18157</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2016 05:36:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got to admit something&#8230;I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s &#8216;escribiendo&#8217;. Like I know the infinitive form &#8216;escribir&#8217; means to write but I don&#8217;t know what form of tense/usage that &#8216;iendo&#8217; ending is. </p>
<p>¿Quiere ustedes corregir sus errores? Porque yo observé errores, pero no sé si ustedes me quieren a corregir. Perdón, me gusta corregir en español y ingl&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-26848"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/escribiendo-en-espanol/#post-18157" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Escribiendo en Español in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/escribiendo-en-espanol/#post-18067</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:07:12 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, yes, and yes again even though you didn&#8217;t tag me 🙂 Or should I say, sí! </p>
<p>Yo aprendí español por ochos semanas, pero no tengo nadie con practicar. Necesito practicar antes de se me olvido! </p>
<p>Yeah mine&#8217;s not perfect either and I haven&#8217;t learnt future tense, but that&#8217;s what practice buddies are for I guess! Look forward to practising 🙂 Mu&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-26732"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/escribiendo-en-espanol/#post-18067" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Writers&#039; Corner 2 in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:20:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can we get another one with proper punctuation please? I&#8217;m quite sure that it&#8217;s meant to be a corner for writers, not just one writer. So, writers&#8217; corner? </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Favorites? in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 02:13:20 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahhhhh <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Kate-flournoy</a> I absolutely love that book!!!! *squeals* </p>
<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> you&#8217;ll find it similar to the short story I sent you the other time. Actually I should say that my short story was similar to it because I was so inspired that I &#8220;copied&#8221; it. *gasps* </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Animal Farm in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 11:56:16 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahhhhhh <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> I&#8217;ve been so busy THANK YOU though for tagging me.</p>
<p>Haven&#8217;t had time to actually read the book, but since I&#8217;ve already read it earlier this year, I&#8217;ll just say that I really like the character development of the animals. </p>
<p>(By the way, is it just me or does anyone else have the problem called &#8220;I&#8217;ve been on Microsoft Word pressing&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21630"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/animal-farm/page/5/#post-13253" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic NOT Knights of Light in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/not-knights-of-light/#post-13065</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 07:10:35 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hope/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Hope</a> you were <em>lying</em> down, not laying. You&#8217;re not a chicken laying eggs.</p>
<p>Um, yeah Legendaires works.</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic NOT Knights of Light in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/not-knights-of-light/#post-13065</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 07:10:35 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hope/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Hope</a> you were lying<em> down, not laying. You&#8217;re not a chicken laying eggs.</p>
<p>Um, yeah Legendaires works.</em></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic The Next Four Years in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-next-four-years/#post-12849</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 14:28:53 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I’ll either write Cruz in or vote Constitutional or Libertarian, none of which will get elected, but it will at least be a statement and might help a good third party get some minor seats down the road.<br />
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<a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> oh is that an option? Sorry; I&#8217;m not that well-versed in American politics.</p>
<p>Oh, and *<strong>anyway</strong></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Endings in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 09:44:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love tackling endings. There&#8217;s always such a sense of finality as you write the last word of the last paragraph, and then THE END. It&#8217;s delightful. </p>
<p>However, sometimes I have had problems with knowing <em>how</em> to end, and <em>when</em> to end. Should I leave it hanging? Should I tie up every single loose end? How do I pack up this mess of conflict and&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21197"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/endings/page/3/#post-12799" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Endings in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 09:44:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love tackling endings. There&#8217;s always such a sense of finality as you write the last word of the last paragraph, and then THE END. It&#8217;s delightful. </p>
<p>However, sometimes I have had problems with knowing <em>how</em> to end, and when<em> to end. Should I leave it hanging? Should I tie up every single loose end? How do I pack up this mess of conflict and&hellip;</em><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21196"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/endings/page/3/#post-12799" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 09:44:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love tackling endings. There&#8217;s always such a sense of finality as you write the last word of the last paragraph, and then THE END. It&#8217;s delightful. </p>
<p>However, sometimes I have had problems with knowing <em>how</em> to end, and when<em> to end. Should I leave it hanging? Should I tie up every single loose end? How do I pack up this mess of conflict and&hellip;</em><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21195"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/endings/page/3/#post-12799" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic started the topic The Next Four Years in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 09:36:12 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay so this isn&#8217;t exactly related to writing, but I was wondering what all you Americans are thinking in this time period.</p>
<p>As an American friend of mine said: &#8220;Four and a half years of a fast ride down a hill have been confirmed for the U.S. We just don&#8217;t know which of the two contestants is going to be pushing us down that hill.&#8221; </p>
<p>What are&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-21194"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-next-four-years/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic What Book Are We Going To Read? in the forum Book Discussions</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/what-book-are-we-going-to-read/page/8/#post-12797</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 09:29:35 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wasn&#8217;t tagged. :'( </p>
<p>But yup I&#8217;ve got the book! Can&#8217;t wait to get started!!</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic What Book Are We Going To Read? in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 03:54:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aww we should totally do LotR because I&#8217;m just right now rereading it! Let me think&#8230;what about Franken *resists the urge to add a celery at the end* *tries harder* Frankencelery *fails because Veggietales is too strong* Yeah, by Mary Shelley. I suppose that you should be able to guess what I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s a great book and has excellent&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20578"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/what-book-are-we-going-to-read/page/2/#post-12218" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic THE THING YOU WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR IF YOU KNEW ABOUT IT (I assume) in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 03:50:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayyyyyy <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> sounds cool to me! But more often than not I might not be able to find the assigned book in time, since I don&#8217;t read on kindle and my library doesn&#8217;t have a lot of books. (Well yes it does have a lot of books, just a lot of the type I like reading.) I do hope we&#8217;ll do books I&#8217;ve read before though! Classics. Classics. CLASSICS!!! </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic A Story by a Seven Year Old in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
				<link>http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/a-story-by-a-seven-year-old/#post-12006</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:14:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@kate-flournoy</a> aww I was hoping that the teleportation would work. Would save me a lot of transport fare.</p>
<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> just like regular shipping I guess but I&#8217;m doing it on the forum, so that&#8217;s the difference? Oh well&#8230;(by the way how do you insert emojis other than the typical smiley/sad faces? Like the cool sunglasses face for example.)</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic A Story by a Seven Year Old in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:14:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@kate-flournoy</a> aww I was hoping that the teleportation would work. Would save me a lot of transport fare.</p>
<p>@Daues just like regular shipping I guess but I&#8217;m doing it on the forum, so that&#8217;s the difference? Oh well&#8230;(by the way how do you insert emojis other than the typical smiley/sad faces? Like the cool sunglasses face for example.)</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic A Story by a Seven Year Old in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:20:04 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesss it&#8217;s so cute!!!! Her dialogue is hilarious. I was also quite astounded at the professional use of speaker tags. Some writers haven&#8217;t got that perfected yet! </p>
<p>(By the way <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> and <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Kate-Flournoy</a> am I allowed to forum ship the two of you? Yeah I know it&#8217;s silly but honestly the way you two go on here&#8230;oh well never mind. My inner&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-20292"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/a-story-by-a-seven-year-old/#post-11937" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic started the topic A Story by a Seven Year Old in the forum</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:53:18 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys~~</p>
<p>My seven year old sister recently got into the hobby of writing stories, and they are absolutely hilarious. So I just thought it&#8217;d be fun to share something she just wrote. (Shh, don&#8217;t tell her I&#8217;m showing this to you all)</p>
<p><strong>How the Tamer Hid the Poor Girl</strong></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Favorites? in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:30:00 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Kate-Flournoy</a> OH. MY. GOODNESS. Lord of the Flies is AMAZING. It&#8217;s one of my favourites yes yes woohoo now I&#8217;m getting too excited because I love this book so much. It&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s one of those books that makes me stare at the page and wonder how the author can convey such strong feeling just by words. And in addition, when I had finished&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-19734"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/favorites/page/6/#post-11427" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Could use a little input in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:38:26 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> more than happy to help! I guess you should have my email already from <em>my</em> little thing, so just send me the doc 🙂</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic KP Needs Your Questions on Time Management in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 11:47:32 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>School. How to balance the eight plus hours of school with writing? I&#8217;ve read that you should write for two hours a day, but I just can&#8217;t seem to find that kind of time. </p>
<p>And also, how do you continue to write short stories and stuff like that when you have a larger novel project looming along? </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic How fast do you read? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:15:46 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, but my older brother and one younger sister read at the speed of lightning. But it makes me annoyed because they don&#8217;t appreciate the writing at all. Once I quizzed my sister about a book she had just finished and she couldn&#8217;t answer a lot of the questions. It made me so mad. I read slightly slower but at least I pick up on the points.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:13:03 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is reading The Lord of the Rings in around two weeks (less, definitely, in stints and long runs) fast? I don&#8217;t know. Everyone says I read quickly and when I took the speed reading test I could do 800 to 1000 words per minute and still understand the story. But sometimes I feel that I just want to soak the words up, and in that case I&#8217;ll take a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17792"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/how-fast-do-you-read/page/2/#post-9539" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Where do you live? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:09:02 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live in the best country: Singapore. It&#8217;s so small that it doesn&#8217;t have any states or cities, and I&#8217;m extremely patriotic about it. Come on, we made it from third world to first in less than fifty years! How many countries can boast that? </p>
<p>Unfortunately America is at the other side of the world, plus from what I&#8217;ve heard in news it&#8217;s crumbling&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17791"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/where-do-you-live/#post-9538" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Hi howdy hey. in the forum Start HERE</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:02:14 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hislittlerose/' rel="nofollow ugc">@hislittlerose</a> AHHHHHH!!!!! LIGHTNING! WHY YOU PUT THAT E? </p>
<p>Also, hi there, Lightning Mouse spelt correctly. Though you might want to get another alias since people seem to have strange trouble spelling Lightning. I like eating.</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic My Latest Short Story in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 05:36:24 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks a bunch guys!! <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@daeus</a>, <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hope/' rel="nofollow ugc">@hope</a>, <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/jadamae/' rel="nofollow ugc">@jadamae</a>!! Emails coming through, so wait for it!</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 09:25:23 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey you helpful wonderful guys out there on the Internet!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start this off with some backstory. This year I have two writing goals. I&#8217;ve failed the first already (that was an attempt to write &#8216;something&#8217; every day) but here&#8217;s the second: I&#8217;ve determined to complete one short story every two months. And yes, my Jan-Feb short story has been&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-17431"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/my-latest-short-story/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Hello in the forum Start HERE</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:39:11 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Anna! Welcome to the forum! Haha you&#8217;re probably the nearest person in proximity to me who&#8217;s on this forum, considering that Australia&#8217;s &#8216;close&#8217; in relation to Singapore as compared to America. Drop by if you can, will you? 😉 </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry about the writing. We&#8217;ll all improve slowly.</p>
<p>~Sarah</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Input on my logo please in the forum Novel Idea Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 13:32:20 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes hello <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@kate-flournoy</a> I heard my name?</p>
<p>Oh, that. Yeah, you&#8217;re right although the passive voice you&#8217;re using there doesn&#8217;t sound very nice. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to shrink the font&#8221; is so much more understandable.</p>
<p>Grammar lesson aside&#8230;I like Number One. Numero Uno for a Singaporean trying to learn Spanish, but that&#8217;s a side note. But I really&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-16814"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/input-on-my-logo-please/#post-8472" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 02:43:04 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahem, ahem I&#8217;m back. <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@daeus</a> *sneaked not snuck. (By the way my missed presence here doesn&#8217;t mean that you guys haven&#8217;t been making grammatical errors. I&#8217;m just swamped with work.)</p>
<p>Hi Hannah! I like studying psychology and reading Tolkien too. I have five younger sisters and two brothers. Must be so fun at your family with so many kids around!&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-16742"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/hello-fellow-writers/#post-8394" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Alright, I&#039;m starting HERE. Hello. in the forum Start HERE</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:13:50 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top of the afternoon to you, MK (ooh what does that stand for? Milk Kid? Master King? Massive Kaleidoscope?). I noticed that your first post had a lot of errors in it, and even though I&#8217;ve been noticeably (actually I wonder whether anyone noticed me) absent from here, I&#8217;ve made a special reappearance to tell you that it&#8217;s &#8216;you guys&#8217; instead of&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-16476"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/alright-im-starting-here-hello/page/2/#post-8134" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Real Men: To Cry or Not to Cry?? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:33:44 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> what about heaving sobs? Do heaving sobs work?</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Real Men: To Cry or Not to Cry?? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:19:36 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to this topic with a  new hypothetical case.</p>
<p>What kind of trauma would make a young man cry? Would being strangled within inches of death and then having to hide it be enough to loose the floodgates? Assume that he&#8217;s already in deep depression and has already tried once to commit suicide. Would this heavy trauma make him cry like a baby?&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-16205"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/real-men-to-cry-or-not-to-cry/page/3/#post-7849" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic You know you are a writer when... in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:00:37 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahhh, those times <a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/kate-flournoy/' rel="nofollow ugc">@kate-flournoy</a>. Once we were playing Samson, so the kids tied me to a table and then shouted &#8220;SAMSON!!! THE PHILISTINES ARE ATTACKING!!!&#8221; and thankfully it was easy to get out. </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Inter-genre Island in the forum Short Story Critiques</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:15:32 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An, appearing on island: &#8220;What on earth is this random place? Is there food? Tell me there&#8217;s food. Who on earth are all you guys?&#8221; *Spins around and sees monster* &#8220;And what on earth is that THING?&#8221;</p>
<p>(Sorry I&#8217;m late. Was hung up over a two-day conference.)</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Character Café in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:53:26 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh okay this sounds like good fun.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll use my current favourite character in my WIP: Lin Ping An. But everyone just calls him An. He was from China, but moved to work. He&#8217;s a guy who seems to be unable to take anything seriously and is the sort of person you&#8217;d want around at a party, but when trouble strikes he can be very sweet and sincere.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-15909"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/character-cafe/#post-7460" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Why do you write? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:08:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> @Kate&#8230;hmm&#8230;actually you know what? I&#8217;m quite sure that what I said was correct; but I don&#8217;t have a legitimate answer to why either of your &#8216;corrections&#8217; might be wrong. That sometimes happens.</p>
<p>Oh&#8230;to actually contribute something relevant to this thread, here goes. I write because I think that my writing is actually a lot better than&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-15373"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/why-do-you-write/page/2/#post-6829" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Why do you write? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2015 05:23:59 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Kate I&#8217;d like to know how you make those em-dashes. And yes, what you said made me very happy because that&#8217;s my point. I need people to use proper English. I might become the most annoying person in the world but at least I would have had corrected people. Sigh I guess it&#8217;s part of me.</p>
<p>@Daues you&#8217;re forgiven. (But don&#8217;t do it again!!!)</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Why do you write? in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:31:33 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Tape worms – their so discriminated against. Write for the tapeworms!</em></p>
<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/daeus/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Daeus</a> Look me in the eyes and tell me that that was your computer changing what you typed. Can&#8217;t? Well let me tell you that it&#8217;s *they&#8217;re. </p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic Those Tear-jerkers :&#039;( in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:57:09 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://kingdompen.org/members/hope/' rel="nofollow ugc">@Hope</a> I&#8217;ve read the Wingfeather Saga but I didn&#8217;t cry at the end. Personally I didn&#8217;t like the protagonist and found him rather irritating&#8230;but the plot was good. Writing style and grammar not excellent, but the plot was admittedly riveting and very complex. </p>
<p>@Kate I only JUST finished the Lord of the Rings last week and now I&#8217;m a new fan. I&#8217;m&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-15279"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/those-tear-jerkers/#post-6738" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic started the topic Those Tear-jerkers :&#039;( in the forum Book Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:52:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guyyyys I want to know what books have made you cry and why.</p>
<p>For me I only have five and I feel quite proud of myself that I don&#8217;t just cry at any old book. They have to be SUPER good books. But yeah, here you go in chronological order of my tears.</p>
<p>1) Ransom&#8217;s Mark by Wendy Lawton: because I was a small kid about age ten and when Olive&#8217;s sister&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-15222"><a href="http://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/those-tear-jerkers/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic You know you are a writer when... in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:45:00 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>You know your a writer when your siblings have fan moments just talking with you about your book.<br />
You know your a writer when you take notes when your sick, so your characters’ sickness will me more true to life.</em></p>
<p>@Rosey AHHHHH WHAT IS WITH THAT</p>
<p>*YOU&#8217;RE</p>
<p>You know you&#8217;re a grammar nazi when people&#8217;s slips make you scream.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:43:02 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoops that was to @David I forgot to tag anyone I just got too mad</p>
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				<title>The Happy Bookaholic replied to the topic You know you are a writer when... in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:42:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know you&#8217;re a writer when you scream in your head &#8220;IT&#8217;S DIFFERENT FROM NOT DIFFERENT THAN AHHHHH DIFFERENT IS NOT A COMPARATIVE WORD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS&#8217; SAKE GET IT RIGHT ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WRITER.&#8221;</p>
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