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	<description>about the craft and business of fiction</description>
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		<title>Cover Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proverb says, Don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover, but whoever dreamed that one up can&#8217;t have been working in the publishing industry. It might be an indictment of human shallowness, but you can&#8217;t help first impressions. You will not judge a book by its cover once you&#8217;ve read it, of course; but first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cats: A Memory of Lloyd Alexander</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the time of the year when a trip to the mailbox means finding a cheerful bundle of Christmas cards from family and friends all over the world. And it&#8217;s this time of the year that I most miss an annual ritual: receiving a Christmas cat card from my dear pen-friend Lloyd Alexander, the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a Digital Multimedia Comic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the very rich French comic-book tradition of bandes dessinées which includes such great classics as the Tintin series, the Asterix series, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs and tons, tons more. The French tradition is one of the three great comic-book traditions of the world, with the Japanese and American traditions being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Short Stories or Articles with a Fantastical Twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantasy and speculative fiction generally is traditionally associated with lots of characters, detailed settings, rich texture, complex ideas developed slowly over great long novels. But there are forms other than the novel suitable to this most magically expansive of genres, and I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun over the years going on potted excursions, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/21/food-for-thought-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an idle moment a few months ago,when I was between novels and feeling at something of a loose end, I finally got around to doing something I&#8217;d been thinking about for a while: start my own blog on food and all sorts of culinary matters, with a French-Australian slant. I wanted it to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Professional Stickybeak and the Train of Thought</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/08/17/the-professional-stickybeak-and-the-train-of-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers are professional &#8216;stickybeaks&#8217;, as we say in Australia: amongst crowds of strangers we go about eyes on stalks, ears flapping, mind whirring, sniffing out the telling vignette, the odd detail, the weird seed that might one day flourish into a full-grown literary plant. We don&#8217;t need to know everything about a real-life situation or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short dream workshop</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/07/20/a-short-dream-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time immemorial, human beings have dreamed&#8211;every night we go into what one of my sons&#8217; friends once referred to as &#8216;those brilliant eight hours of free entertainment.&#8217; And from time immemorial, writers have used images or scenes from dreams, or entire dreams, to enrich and expand their creative work in waking life. I&#8217;m certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Edge of Your Seat &#8211; Creating Suspense</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/15/on-the-edge-of-your-seat-creating-suspense/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/15/on-the-edge-of-your-seat-creating-suspense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suspense is what keeps a reader reading—wanting to know what happens. The suspense can be of all kinds, from wanting to know who the baddie is in a thriller to wanting to know whether the heroine is going to choose Mr A or Mr B as her love interest, to—well, just about anything, really! Creating [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>In praise of Anya Seton and Katherine</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/18/in-praise-of-anya-seton-and-katherine/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/18/in-praise-of-anya-seton-and-katherine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese butting in for a sec with a big w00t for WU contributor Sophie Masson before her regularly scheduled post. Sophie has just won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children&#8217;s Literature for her book My Australian Story: The Hunt for Ned Kelly. I absolutely loved Sophie&#8217;s interview with ABC Sydney after winning this book. Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Festivals—A Writer&#8217;s Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/04/20/literary-festivals%e2%80%94a-writers-survival-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/04/20/literary-festivals%e2%80%94a-writers-survival-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, it&#8217;s not good enough just to be a writer in a garret, banging away at your books. You&#8217;ve got to promote. Present. Appear on radio, TV, newspapers, blogs, You Tube, whatever. Get around and speak in schools, universities, conferences. And literary festivals, which from a modest start thirty or so years ago have [...]]]></description>
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