<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[TheBenSchafer.com]]></title><description><![CDATA[thebenschafer]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/blog-1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:58:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thebenschafer.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stop Complaining. Start Creating.]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a longtime Star Wars fan, I remember the excitement when it was announced that a new trilogy was being produced after Disney's...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/stop-complaining-start-creating</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680d1ef67a112d76174ca73f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:50:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Status Update: Still Alive!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, everyone. I want to apologize for my lengthy silence on this site, particularly after beginning a new series analyzing works of...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/status-update-still-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e18ae821a7b44b35ed7840</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:06:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Journey through 100 Books: The Tempest]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, we looked at William Shakespeare's great tragedy Hamlet, the story of a young man whose pride and indecision caused his quest...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/my-journey-through-100-books-the-tempest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60b9ae9b5f5f5f001609710b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:40:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a28512_3221c9884af949bc9d8541236ca3687c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_690,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Journey through 100 Books: Hamlet]]></title><description><![CDATA["To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/my-journey-through-100-books-hamlet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60b641b0ef44e6001568b491</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:11:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a28512_3221c9884af949bc9d8541236ca3687c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_690,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Journey through 100 Books: Of Plymouth Plantation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today we will be looking at something a bit different from the iconic epic poetry of Greece and Rome. Of Plymouth Plantation is the first...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/my-journey-through-100-books-of-plymouth-plantation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60a6da2dfe84ba00155ad070</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 21:53:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a28512_3221c9884af949bc9d8541236ca3687c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_690,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Journey through 100 Books: The Aeneid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern cinema, particularly the superhero genre, has fallen in love with the origin story. 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I've been hard at work developing the third book in the Newton's Moon Saga...]]></description><link>https://www.thebenschafer.com/post/a-new-project</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60995b7f95511d0015ad3de2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 16:20:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/35303efe4ef046afac780ccd44124c47.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ben Schafer</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>