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		<title>Christmas Gifts for Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I really enjoy, every year, is shopping for Christmas gifts. It&#8217;s a challenge to find the &#8216;perfect gift&#8217; for as many people as possible, without blowing the budget. Once, I used to allocate a certain $$ amount per person, and spend up to that amount. If I found a terrific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Killing off the Main Character</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember how outraged I was when I read The Horse Whisperer and the author killed off Tom Booker. OK: in real life, heroes die; anyone can die. But I have to admit, I hate it when it happens to one of the characters I&#8217;ve identified with in a book!
This week, I read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Finding a Space to Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve written in many different spots around the house.
For a while I had a table set up in my bedroom, with a typewriter set up on it. The table was flimsy; the typewriter was large and noisy, and the whole setup shook as I typed. But&#8230; it was a space away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Magazine Subscriptions &#8211; Themed Issues or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I received the latest edition of one of the writers&#8217; magazines to which I subscribe. It&#8217;s still sitting there in its plastic wrapper, and it will probably stay in it for a few months before I throw it out, unread.
Why? Because this particular writers&#8217; mag has themed issues. Every month, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Problems with Backstory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I had a chance to review someone&#8217;s work&#8230; and found that it had significant problems with pacing.
What problems? The scene simply didn&#8217;t flow. The reason was obvious: it was a scene from early in the book, and the writer was busy setting the scene &#8211; and this involved filling in lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=229</link>
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		<title>The Lure of the Next Book&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of those writers who finds that the problem is not so much getting ideas, but keeping them at arm&#8217;s length so you can keep working on the current novel?
If you have two or three novels going at the same time (plus maybe a number of smaller projects) here are some tips:

Keep an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Punctuation for Dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve found that one of the things that trips up many writers is the punctuation of dialogue. This involves not only the basic punctuation (which symbols to put before the final quotation marks; where the speech tags go; which bits go inside the quotation marks and which bits go outside) but other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Dragon Naturally Speaking &#8211; A Better Way to Be Productive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks I&#8217;ve been busier than ever &#8211; partly because I&#8217;m trying some new opportunities on for size; partly because we&#8217;ve had three family birthdays within a week and part of the clan visiting from interstate.
All in all&#8230; it&#8217;s hard to get some of the writing done. I think most writers feel more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=217</link>
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		<title>A Freelance Writing Job with Suite 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite often, when I&#8217;ve searched for information on a certain topic, I&#8217;ve found an answer on Suite 101. Last time I was there (on a topic completely unrelated to writing) I stopped for a while and took another look at their site&#8230; and discovered that it&#8217;s not a bad way to (a) get some writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=213</link>
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		<title>Overheard Snippets of Conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t advocate overt spying on other people, I&#8217;ve often said that you can gain a lot from eavesdropping on conversations in a public place. This can give you an insight into the rhythms of speech and character quirks.
Here are three snippets of conversation that I&#8217;ve overheard in the past few days, whilst holidaying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.writing4success.com/blog/?p=210</link>
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