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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>The Good Seed, Part II</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/02/the-good-seed-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we began to look at premise development. I argued that developing a premise through writing a first draft is a natural practice, one that most authors follow. Yet a bit more attention to deepening one’s premise at the beginning of the process will both enrich that first draft and avert later shortcomings. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Seed</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/04/04/the-good-seed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will you ever run out of story ideas? What a laughable question. Of course not! There are more stories in your cocktail napkin collection than you’ll be able to use. And new story ideas&#8211;? Just read the newspaper. Cull from family lore. Do some research. Or just live life. Novel ideas are everywhere. True enough. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entertainment vs. Truth</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/03/07/entertainment-vs-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stereotypes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What’s more important to you, entertaining your readers or revealing the truth of things? Both? Maybe, but your writing itself will tell me on which side of that divide your values predominantly lie. Entertainers often are unashamed. The harder they insist on their purpose, though, the more likely it is that I’ll find their stories [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[RESEARCH]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=11799</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Sense of Self</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/12/07/a-sense-of-self/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/12/07/a-sense-of-self/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=11544</guid>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=11062</guid>
		<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>
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		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=10311</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/08/03/the-comeback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
		<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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