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      <title>Project No. 4: The Lure of the Blank Page</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;You know the feeling: You&amp;rsquo;re watching TV, reading an article, or just walking around, and pop—you have a new idea for a plot. The problem? It doesn&amp;rsquo;t fit into any of your current books. Not with the dancers, not in the dystopian zone, and certainly not in the server room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the only logical (and completely unreasonable) thing to do? Exactly: You start a new book.&#xA;A new world, new characters, completely without a past that&amp;rsquo;s already written in stone. You just start typing, and the character decides who they want to be.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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