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		<title>Do you dream?&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wake up in the mornings with my head filled with STUFF. Sometimes it&#8217;s an entire story, fully fleshed out and ready to roll (I&#8217;ve sold at least one such story, and it&#8217;s been published, and people out there have no real idea they&#8217;re reading the transcript of what my brain presented me with while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/02/05/do-you-dream/</link>
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		<title>Which Con Are You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there! Just a quick post from me today, because I am deep in the throes of finishing DARKBEAST REBELLION (sequel to DARKBEAST, which you&#8217;ll be seeing on August 28 of this year&#8230;)  I *thought* that I was writing the penultimate chapter yesterday, but that turned out to be a lie, because I had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/02/01/which-con-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Drawing on Literary Traditions: THE HUNGER GAMES and THE MAZE RUNNER as Case Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A graduate student in writing, someone I am mentoring, asked me a question some time back about what she should do if she came up with an idea for a story that she really wanted to write, but that had been written about previously by other writers.  My answer to her was basically this: &#8220;First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/01/31/drawing-on-literary-traditions-the-hunger-games-and-the-maze-runner-as-case-studies/</link>
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		<title>The Skill List Project: Writing Descriptive Passages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another post in The Skill List Project: an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. As promised last time, we&#8217;re going to look at writing description, one of the most important skills in prose fiction. When you think about it, prose fiction primarily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/01/23/the-skill-list-project-writing-descriptive-passages/</link>
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		<title>Competence is hot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now everybody and their brother has probably seen the post by (SF Novelists&#8217; own) Jim Hines, wherein he attempts to pose like the women on the covers of some fantasy novels. The results are suitably absurd &#8212; not because there&#8217;s anything wrong with Jim, but because there&#8217;s something wrong with the covers. He caused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/01/16/competence-is-hot/</link>
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		<title>What’s Your Favorite Anecdote About Learning How to Write?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mine is easy.  It was in a college writing class many, many years ago.  Not an MFA writing class, but the kind of writing class that pre-meds, business, and chemistry majors used to take, because deep in their hearts they didn&#8217; want to be doctors, entrepreneurs, or scientists.  They wanted to be writers.  Creative writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/01/15/what%e2%80%99s-your-favorite-anecdote-about-learning-how-to-write/</link>
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		<title>Promotion, self-promotion, and all that jazz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See, here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; nobody likes a shill for their own stuff. For very excellent reasons. If a person &#8211; an artist &#8211; a writer &#8211; doesn&#8217;t seem to be capable of uttering six straight words without beginning the next sentence with &#8220;In MY book&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; well &#8211; there is only so much you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2012/01/05/promotion-self-promotion-and-all-that-jazz/</link>
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		<title>A Writer&#8217;s Letter To Santa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Santa: First of all, I want to assure you that I have been very good this year.  Really.  I&#8217;ve done A LOT of writing; I&#8217;ve put my butt in my chair just about every day.  (My butt&#8217;s actually a little flat and wide at this point for all the writing I&#8217;ve done.  But that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2011/12/23/a-writers-letter-to-santa/</link>
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		<title>The Skill List Project: Scene Beginnings and Endings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another post in The Skill List Project: an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. In the past few posts, we&#8217;ve been looking at writing scenes. We&#8217;ve talked about the flow of plot from scene to scene and the need for conflict, difficulties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2011/12/21/the-skill-list-project-scene-beginnings-and-endings/</link>
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		<title>Secrets of Writing – Pacing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pacing is one of the most important techniques in a writer’s tool chest, especially if you write narrative.  It is also one of tools least understood by newbies – at least that was my experience when I was an active member of the Online Writers Workshop. What is pacing? you ask.  Pacing is the art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sfnovelists.com/2011/12/15/secrets-of-writing-%e2%80%93-pacing/</link>
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