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	<title>Children of the First&#187; Notes from the Author</title>
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	<description>A fantasy webnovel by Alex McGaughan</description>
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		<title>AHHHH!</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/330/ahhhh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the theme i used to base the site design on is now out-of-date. Nothing works properly. I have to figure this junk out. Dammit. Sorry guys. Hope you can read this.]]></description>
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		<title>An Update... Sort of</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/318/an-update-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/318/an-update-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
PLEASE DON'T STAB MY FACE! I'm really sorry it's taken so long to post anything... at all. I suck. I'm trying to suck less. So here's a relatively recent correspondence (that is now outdated in some ways) with CotF reader virulent Goblin. Thanks to vG for agreeing to let me post it!


VG: I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Status: Updates Delayed While I&#039;m in New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/186/placeholder-chapter-25-is-in-the-works/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/186/placeholder-chapter-25-is-in-the-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I know I haven't posted chapter 25 yet... it's still not finished. I've had a really hard time writing lately, mostly because I've been mentally and physically exhausted for the past week or so. I was still trying to get work done every night, but ended up beating my head against the wall and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update at the new AlexMcG.com</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/139/update-at-the-new-alexmcgcom/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/139/update-at-the-new-alexmcgcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here]]></description>
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		<title>Update on New Chapter and Why I&#039;m Sucking</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/118/update-on-new-chapter-and-why-im-sucking/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/118/update-on-new-chapter-and-why-im-sucking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I suck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So if you're reading this, you've probably read "Announcement: The chapter is written, but will not be published." I wanted to let you know that I still stand by that decision but that you've, as virulent_Goblin put it, "been holding [your] ass for a week" and you're all wondering what's taking so long. 

Lots of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: The chapter is written, but will not be published.</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/117/new-chapter-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/117/new-chapter-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last night I wrote that the chapter was not up to snuff and would go up today. Well, I addressed the issues, but the more I thought about it (and the more I talked about it with Whitney--friend/editor/sounding board) the less I liked it. 

It was okay. It was clean, decently written, and had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want YOU! to talk to me about webfiction</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/109/talk-about-webfiction/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/109/talk-about-webfiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm in this creative non-fiction workshop and our last assignment is to write about whatever we want. 

Naturally, I'm going to write an article (or piece, story, essay, whatever) about writing on the web, specifically webnovels and other webfiction (i.e. not just another thing about blogs). I think I'm going to focus on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Status update</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/107/status-update-3/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/107/status-update-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't have anything due for class the rest of this week (except for reading some of E.B. White's essays, which isn't exactly an arduous task), which would normally mean I have more time to devote to the internet in the next four days, but unfortunately (or I guess fortunately for my sanity) this is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Podcast Status Update</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/96/podcast-status-update/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/96/podcast-status-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the poor-ish quality...

[display_podcast]

What do you all think of the podcasting bid'ness? (Thanks to Dianne for the idea and Cameron for the second.)]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, no chapter tonight</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/92/sorry-no-chapter-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/92/sorry-no-chapter-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have too much homework, honestly. 

I thought I was going to be able to do two chapters a week, but it turns out, I'm not. As much as it pains me to do so, I'm dropping back to one chapter a week until I have more time on my hands. 

I'm sorry I keep [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hurricane Update 2   *and now 3*</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/84/hurricane-update-2/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/84/hurricane-update-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hurricane Update</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/81/hurricane-update/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/81/hurricane-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gustav]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Blog


]]></description>
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		<title>Children of the First reviewed at the Web Fiction Guide</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/76/children-of-the-first-reviewed-at-the-web-fiction-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/76/children-of-the-first-reviewed-at-the-web-fiction-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children of the First was just reviewed over at  The Web Fiction Guide, which is one of the best (if not the best, since Pages Unbound is out of the running) communities of web fiction readers and writers. 
Chris Poirier, one of the WFG Editors and author of Winter Rain, gave CotF 3.5 stars [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hiatus after chapter ten</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/72/hiatus-after-chapter-ten/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/72/hiatus-after-chapter-ten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes from the Author]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm here, working on the new chapter, when my roommate comes in and tells me that one of our new roommate's rent checks bounced after being late with last month and 3 weeks late with the security deposit, so now our landlord wants us to fix the problem (which would involve getting him his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are you f*cking kidding me??</title>
		<link>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/63/are-you-fcking-kidding-me/</link>
		<comments>http://childrenofthefirst.com/main/63/are-you-fcking-kidding-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was pretty far through the bonus thing; I'd gotten the images in, knew what I was writing, and all that was left was put the last words on the screen.

So what does firefox decide to do? Crash.

And of course, instead of writing in microsoft word like I have with every chapter so far, [...]]]></description>
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