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	<title>The Art of Erik Stell</title>
	<link>http://erikstell.com</link>
	<description>&#34;Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.&#34; - Ambrose Bierce</description>
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		<title>Life &amp; times of a fledgling DM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



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My credentials as a gamer &#38; fantasy artist are pretty easy to spot at first glance.  I’ve never made any bones about what kind of art I do, or what kind of games I prefer to play.  It actually frightens me now to know that playing 2nd Edition AD&#38;D qualifies me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=1051&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2010/02/25/life-times-of-a-fledgling-dm/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many people, I spend a considerable amount of time every January thinking about the topic of a New Year resolution. I have something of a love/hate relationship with the concept, which often leads me to make a resolution one year, and then refuse the next.  I believe that starting the year by making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=1045&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2010/01/04/new-years-musings/</link>
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		<title>Artwork Update &#8211; 12/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are few things that I have procrastinated in posting&#8230;

Posted in Artwork       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=1043&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/12/20/artwork-update-1220/</link>
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		<title>The Quiet Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The creative process can be something of a mental whirlwind.  Artists, writers, &#38; other creative types will know what I’m talking about.  It’s a sense of excitement, the eagerness you feel when beginning work on a new project.  The details flash in your mind faster than thought, &#38; for just a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=1029&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/12/15/the-quiet-hours/</link>
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		<title>Current Project Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just so people can see what I have been working on&#8230;
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		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/10/22/current-project-progress/</link>
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		<title>Familiar Ground&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, at long last, the site has been moved...  After several years living within a private Wordpress installation, I've finally moved it to a free hosted version of same on Wordpress.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=956&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/09/14/familiar-ground/</link>
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		<title>In from the cold&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to take a sort of pleasure in running my own WordPress instance on my own hosted server space.  I used to derive enjoyment of being master of my own domain, so to speak, and having all the freedoms and responsibilities that entails.
Used to&#8230;
However it&#8217;s become something of a chore now, what with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=947&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/08/18/in-from-the-cold/</link>
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		<title>The Trap(pings) of Fantasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been noticing recently a common sentiment appears to be presiding over the Fantasy genre:  More and more people are growing tired of the same old thing.  I say why shouldn’t they be, since they’ve been fed a steady diet of dwarven depths, elven antics and magic aplenty?  These are arguably staples of fantasy-dom, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=945&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/08/14/the-trappings-of-fantasy/</link>
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		<title>Summer Obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea why&#8230;
Posted in Mutterings       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=943&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/07/02/summer-obsession/</link>
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		<title>Old, New, &amp; the art of not caring anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some intentionally put things aside, making them destined to reside solely in the past. The rationale is that they’re no longer relevant to the current day and age, being either too old or too childish for the thinker’s sensibilities. What’s odd is that in time, that same person is likely to lament for its loss.
Why? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikstell.com&blog=9109030&post=941&subd=erikstell&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://erikstell.com/2009/06/25/old-new-the-art-of-not-caring-anymore/</link>
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