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	<title>Writer Unboxed &#187; Donald Maass</title>
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	<description>about the craft and business of fiction</description>
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		<title>Research vs. Observation</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/02/01/research-vs-observation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you research your novels to the point of obsession or do you not research at all?  Historical novelists are research junkies. Coming-of-age novelists mostly rely on memory. The majority of fiction writers fall somewhere in between: They study just enough so that their settings are accurate and their characters’ occupations feel real. The rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm vs. Cool</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/04/warm-vs-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a question for you: Who’s the superior writer, Jane Austen or Ernest Hemingway? If you answered Jane Austen then you probably write more emotionally, embracing exposition and characters’ interior lives. If you answered Ernest Hemingway then you may believe that emotions on the page are cheap, gooey and artless. For you, showing rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sense of Self</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/12/07/a-sense-of-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know thyself. That advice was one of three dictums inscribed in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, deservedly so. It&#8217;s a prime directive. And what subject is more absorbing than ourselves? Discovering who we are is a primary preoccupation of early adulthood. Life review, the exploration of what our lives have meant, is a critical [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reversals</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/11/02/reversals/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/11/02/reversals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had a change of fortune? Did you see it coming? Probably not. Windfalls are like that. Losses too. We&#8217;re taken by surprise. Suddenly we&#8217;re hurtling the wrong direction down the highway. Assumptions flip over. The world spins upside down. Coins fall out of our pockets, or into them. We&#8217;re weightless. We&#8217;re falling, or rising, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Warmth</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/05/warmth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=10644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people have the knack. They’re easy to meet. We like them right away. Trust is instant. Talk flows without effort. They’re open. We feel like we know them after just a short while. Our kind of folks. Then there’s the other kind. They’re closed. Cool. Stand-offish. Reluctant to reveal themselves. We don’t quite trust [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Surprise!</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/07/surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/07/surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you like surprise parties? Watch videos of them and the reactions are almost always the same. As the victim enters there’s a loud, “Surprise!” The victim looks shocked. Her hands fly to her face. Her head shakes. “No, no, no!” Resistance and denial is a natural response. After all, a surprise means an unexpected [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Comeback</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/08/03/the-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have a deal. Sweet words. Unless you mean the U.S. debt ceiling. Anybody feel good about that one? What a bruising fight. What childish refusal to compromise. Everyone is sick and tired of our government, including our elected officials. Trip to Greece, anyone? As the House of Representatives crawled through its vote on Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fireworks</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/07/06/fireworks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are that sometime recently you saw fireworks. Pasteboard tubes soared into the dark sky, erupting in sizzling blooms of strontium, lithium, calcium, sodium, barium, copper, cesium, potassium, rubidium, iron, aluminum. Spectators gasped, surprised every time. Trails of golden goddess hair lingered on your retinas revealing to you, for a few sweet seconds, the face [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Been There</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/01/been-there/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/01/been-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=8861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I know exactly what you&#8217;re talking about.&#8221; &#8220;Same thing happened to me.&#8221; &#8220;Oh yeah, been there.&#8221; So nice to know we&#8217;re not alone, isn&#8217;t it? Shared experience holds together family, friends, community, country, alliances. Don&#8217;t you wish folks in conflict around the globe would get together and see how much they have in common? Fortunately [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Symbolic</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/04/symbolic/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/04/symbolic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REAL WORLD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s talk about the dress. You know the one I mean. Months of speculation finally were satisfied last Friday when we glimpsed it at last, then studied it in detail as Kate Middleton slowly processed down the aisle of Westminster Abbey. There are a lot of adjectives we could use to describe it, from sophisticated [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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