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		<title>Invasion update, companion and follow-up</title>
		<link>http://www.joshkirkendall.com/2008/06/invasion-update-companion-and-follow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Kirkendall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, I uploaded my first version of &#8220;Invasion&#8220;; an alternative universe where one event during WWII never happens (if you can name that event, you get five points). I&#8217;ve learned over the past few years that writing projects are never truly finished. For instance I&#8217;m drafting the idea of introducing Gloria with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About two weeks ago, I uploaded my first version of &#8220;<a href="http://www.joshkirkendall.com/?page_id=31" target="_blank">Invasion</a>&#8220;; an alternative universe where one event during WWII never happens (if you can name that event, you get five points). I&#8217;ve learned over the past few years that writing projects are never truly finished. For instance I&#8217;m drafting the idea of introducing Gloria with Rose rather than a sobbing wife in a water puddle. I wanted to give Rose companionship outside of Bernard to give her a more integral story-line emotion. Her appearance is really brief and we don&#8217;t examine her emotional state other than sobbing for her younger brother, Johnny. It&#8217;s hard to connect with her.</p>
<p>I have a companion piece with Invasion that takes place around the time we&#8217;re introduced to Bernard early in 1940. Later in the original story, we&#8217;re introduced to &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; &#8212; former SAS &#8212; that integrates with the Freedom Fighters. I wanted to follow Tin Man from young kid until his introduction with the group. The two won&#8217;t likely meet until the very end.</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;m prepping a storyline that follows Invasion that will be from the perspective of Bernard&#8217;s son, Jonathan that sees the end of the occupation but prepares his own son for another threat that&#8217;s briefly referenced. This could be a bigger piece than the typical short story. I&#8217;m playing with the idea of introducing Josen as Johnathan&#8217;s son leading up to a bigger project. If you don&#8217;t know, Josen Kir is my primary character that I&#8217;ve developed stories through the course of his entire life called the Chronicles of Josen Kir. You saw a glimpse into him in &#8220;<a href="http://www.joshkirkendall.com/?page_id=30">In the Beginning&#8230;</a>&#8221; (originally called Choice&#8230; and &#8220;The Choice of Destiny&#8221;. &#8220;In the Beginning&#8221; refers to the first of many important events in Josen&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>Again, I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to introduce Josen in the Invasion series. The thing  that holds me back is the idea of Josen&#8217;s existence within a parallel universe&#8230; though the Invasion series would tie into the Chronicles series rather nicely.</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy reading them as I did writing them. The plan is two-fold; (1) to practice and develop my own writing skills (grammatical and story telling) and (2) to create a universe that&#8217;s only mine.</p>
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		<title>Welcome back&#8230; it&#8217;s been too long</title>
		<link>http://www.joshkirkendall.com/2008/05/welcome-back-its-been-too-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Kirkendall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s me telling myself that it&#8217;s great to be back (even though I held out hope that people scanned for the site well over a year after sudden destruction). Since it was gone for so long, obviously a reinvention of sorts is needed, right? Not really. I have nothing to invent, no specific puprose to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s me telling myself that it&#8217;s great to be back (even though I held out hope that people scanned for the site well over a year after sudden destruction). Since it was gone for so long, obviously a reinvention of sorts is needed, right? Not really. I have nothing to invent, no specific puprose to provide.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I have basic goals with this site which includes a new set of writing projects I&#8217;m undertaking, reviews of books I&#8217;m reading, commentary on current events and general sports that does not include the Bengals (that commentary is found <a title="Cincy Jungle" href="http://www.cincyjungle.com" target="_blank">here</a>). Basically a whole bunch of stuff about me.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Me. Me. Me.</p>
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