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		<title>Mail time</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/01/09/mail-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therese Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here with a quick dip in the mail box&#8230; Near Manhattan? The New York Writers Workshop will be hosting a 1 Day Intensive on Sunday, February 13th, 2011 at 11 am, called &#8220;I Wrote a Book&#8230;Now What? 10 Things You Need to Know to Get Published.&#8221; Some deets: This information-packed workshop will focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Mailbox</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/01/04/from-the-mailbox-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therese Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have I driven everyone nutzoid changing the background on the site? Should it be purple, mauve, gold, blue? (I think I&#8217;m nesting&#8211;or procrastinating; I&#8217;m working on the last chapter of my 2nd book.) So it&#8217;s been a while since we dipped into the WU mailbox. Here are a few of our most recent and valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Eleven Ways to Become a Sucker for the Unfamiliar</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/12/20/eleven-ways-to-become-a-sucker-for-the-unfamiliar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan O'Hara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kit Dunsmore asked: How do you deal with the different stages of a writing project, especially the ones that are least natural for you? A: At the personal level, what stops me from pushing through the unfamiliar is always fear. Fear that I’ll fail, that I’ll be mediocre, that I’ll be mocked, irrelevant. But I understand [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>From the Mailbox</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/11/18/from-the-mailbox-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the Mailbox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Libby from Author Exposure dropped us a line to let us know that WU blog mama Therese Walsh&#8217;s book The Last Will of Moira Leahy is being considered for the December reading selection at the online book club Author Exposure. Vote for Therese and help spread the word about her terrific book (vote HERE)! Author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Mailbox 2.0</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/09/21/from-the-mailbox-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting a bunch of goodies in our inbox these days. Aggie Villanueva dropped us a line about the American Library Association&#8217;s Banned Books Week. She has a request: &#8220;Hello all. I&#8217;m doing a live interview with Angela Maycock, Assistant Director at the ALA&#8217;s Office for Intellectual Freedom about their annual Banned Books Week and year-round [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Mailbox: Fairytale as a basis for fantasy</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/09/16/from-the-mailbox-fairytale-as-a-basis-for-fantasy/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/09/16/from-the-mailbox-fairytale-as-a-basis-for-fantasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Writer Unboxed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we received an e-mail from a reader who wrote the following: I received a note from an agent today saying: &#8216;&#8230;Nor do I think harking back to one of the oldest fairytales of all time . . . is right for contemporary fantasy readers.&#8217; To give this comment context, one of my characters escaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Mailbox: good news &amp; more</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/07/22/more-good-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valued contributor Sophie Masson is on a hot streak! Here&#8217;s her latest: When it rains it pours&#8211;got more good news yesterday&#8211;a new book of mine, JACK OF SPADES (a fun spy thriller for kids set in Paris in 1910 against a background of anarchist attacks) has just been bought by the UK publisher Chicken House&#8211;but as they [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Have a Film Agent + From the Mailbox + Link-Share Day!</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/07/07/from-the-mailbox-link-share-day/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/07/07/from-the-mailbox-link-share-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therese Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s link-share day? It&#8217;s a day to open the floor to you, our learned WU readers. What are your favorite blogs and websites for writers? What&#8217;s your personal url? C&#8217;mon, don&#8217;t be shy. Pimp all in comments. I have a happy announcement: This past week my agent called to say, &#8220;Good news! You have a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>From the Mailbox</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/06/29/from-the-mailbox-8/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/06/29/from-the-mailbox-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Bolton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken sent us the following question: &#8220;What&#8217;s the difference between a prologue, a foreword and a preface? Also, I&#8217;ve heard that fiction writers should avoid prologues and incorporate it into the backstory. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.&#8221; Great question, Ken. Prologues, I&#8217;ll tackle in a minute as there is a bit of disagreement over a prologue&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>From the Mailbox</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/05/31/from-the-mailbox-7/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2009/05/31/from-the-mailbox-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 13:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Writer Unboxed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valued contributor Sophie Masson sent us this message, introducing a site called Richard Harland&#8217;s Writing Tips: Thought this would be of interest to readers of Writer Unboxed. Richard Harland, who compiles it, is a very good writer&#8211;and a friend of mine! It&#8217;s a great free service he&#8217;s doing.. Richard Harland: &#8220;So far, I’m a middling-successful [...]]]></description>
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