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		<title>Something Old, Something New</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/05/16/something-old-something-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most writers, whether new or established, I have folders—physical and electronic—filled with stories that either never quite got to publication but that your instinct tells you are still worth something; or else were published long ago and whose details might be a bit dated, yet whose core is still strong. These aren&#8217;t dead stories, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating Traditional Motifs to Create Fresh Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to do something a bit different today. My new book The Boggle Hunters, a fantasy adventure novel for kids aged 8-12 has just come out this month in Australia (Scholastic Press Australia) and I want to talk about the sheer magic of creating this book and the fun I&#8217;ve had creating a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a Novel: a drama told in three acts, with a prologue and epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prologue: Eureka moment, inspiration strikes. A new idea! Great excitement. Connections made in head, some scribbling in notebook. Floaty yet intense feeling, like being in love. Can&#8217;t think of anything else. Tingles up spine, gooseflesh, daydreams as the idea grows from little spark to fast-burning fire. Weird looks from people as novelist goes about muttering, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make the Most of School Visits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Masson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re an author for children and teens, school visits are an inescapable part of your year. Sometimes they come singly, most often in clumps at various key times: here in Australia, Children&#8217;s Book Week in August sees a little army of writers banging the drum for books and writing in classrooms and libraries all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Story</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/18/cover-story/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/19/a-quick-trip-into-other-worlds-writing-short-stories-or-articles-with-a-fantastical-twist/</link>
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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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