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		<title>A Writer’s-Conference Experience from a Presenter’s POV</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/11/17/a-writer%e2%80%99s-conference-experience-from-a-presenter%e2%80%99s-pov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week brought a happy day when I received the ratings and comments from writers who were in my Crafting a Killer First Page workshop at the 2011 Write on the Sound Writer’s Conference in Edmonds, WA. This is my third time doing the workshop at WOTS, and the ratings are key to being invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Your Party</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/20/it%e2%80%99s-your-party-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst driving back from the office supply store the other day, my car radio graced me with Rick Nelson&#8217;s 1972 hit, Garden Party And here came the lyrics that have such meaning for writers: You can&#8217;t please everyone, So you&#8217;ve got to please yourself The story goes that this song came about because of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because I Said So</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/15/because-i-said-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dialogue tags. In my book I call them “a game writers shouldn’t play.” I was talking about the use of verbs other than “said” to explain dialogue. You know: ”Please don’t do that,” he articulated. “What?” she interrogated. I’m sure you immediately saw the silliness of tags like this that try to explain dialogue by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Outside Eyes</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/08/18/outside-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all talk about the need for “fresh eyes,” but a writer friend who did me the humongous favor of doing a final read of Finding Magic said, when I thanked her for saving me from a number of embarrassing typos and passages where clarity was in short supply, “We just need outside eyes.” I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dealing with critique feedback</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/07/21/dealing-with-critique-feedback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader of my blog, Flogging the Quill, asked a question for my new Monday “FtQ&#38;A” feature that I thought I would explore here and expand there next week. (This Monday it was answers regarding my self-publishing efforts.) This writer asked, “When faced with differing opinions about how to fix your writing or plot or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Head-hopping</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/16/head-hopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a writer working on her first novel sent her first chapter for one of my single-chapter edits. She admitted to being very new at it, and was open to learning. One thing that jumped (hopped?) right out was “head-hopping”—sudden shifts in point of view within a scene while in the close third person. I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putting Ourselves Out There</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/19/putting-ourselves-%e2%80%9cout-there%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My (gulp) Internet radio debut is today, Thursday, May 19. They’re going to ask about the ideas in my novel, a speculative political thriller titled We the Enemy. It happens on The New American Dream Radio Show. The show starts at 7:45 pm Eastern time and the guest interview comes about a half hour into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Culprits that Block Writers from Reaching a Pro Level</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/04/21/culprits-that-block-writers-from-reaching-a-pro-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any writer who’s been at this for a while knows that that there’s a long and increasingly steep learning curve involved with mastering the art of crafting a professional novel. Good writers who’ve been at this for a while can also spot, instantly, flaws in another’s narrative. But we have trouble seeing our own, don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>What’s your story’s agenda?</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/03/17/what%e2%80%99s-your-story%e2%80%99s-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/03/17/what%e2%80%99s-your-story%e2%80%99s-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always had trouble getting my head around what a theme is in fiction, as in “What’s your novel’s theme?” I don’t think of my stories in that way, certainly not at the inception stage. If pressed, I can find things that I think are themes once the novel is written, but I still have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Successful Solo Novelist: Possible or Not?</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/02/17/the-successful-solo-novelist-possible-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/02/17/the-successful-solo-novelist-possible-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Rhamey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We long-form book writers talk amongst ourselves about how solitary our work is. We spend hundreds of hours alone in our minds (except for the casts of characters in our stories). We rightly view it as a solo art. There are other arts that are solitary in the creation stage, of course—music composition and painting/designing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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