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	<description>about the craft and business of fiction</description>
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		<title>Research vs. Observation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Maass</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>How to Use Psychometric Testing to Create Believable Characters</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/30/how-to-use-psychometric-testing-to-create-believable-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/30/how-to-use-psychometric-testing-to-create-believable-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest is psychologist Vince McLeod, who runs a website called The Story Generator. Vince is here today to talk with us about the psychology of our characters&#8211;and more than that, how we might use psychological testing to help inform our fiction. Enjoy! How to Use Psychometric Testing to Create Believable Characters In order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internal and External Inspirations</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/06/internal-and-external-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Therese Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What inspires you as a writer? If you write, and especially if you&#8217;re an author who visits book groups, you&#8217;ve likely been asked that question more than once. I think the question has more than one level, as does the answer. Like me, you may not even recognize all of your inspirations until after you&#8217;ve finished a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to Be Your Own Intern</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/03/07/how-to-be-your-own-intern/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/03/07/how-to-be-your-own-intern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jael McHenry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRAFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RESEARCH]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here, elbowing in for a quick sec to say woohoo, our first week of donations in the Writers for The Red Cross auction has earned $450! Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s packages, including &#8220;The Kitchen Daughter&#8221; Book Club in a Box donated by Jael McHenry; a signed copy of Donald Maass&#8217;s not-yet-released book The Breakout [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Take 5 with Cindy Pon and Shveta Thakrar: Writing Across Cultural Lines with Verve and Sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/11/15/cindy-pon-and-shveta-thakrar/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/11/15/cindy-pon-and-shveta-thakrar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan O'Hara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[RESEARCH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=5787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you love fiction with fantasy elements, but despair of writing a novel which will capture an editor or agent’s attention? Have you grown weary of the traditional fare – what Smart Bitch Sarah Wendell refers to as “vamptired”? If you&#8217;ve thought of turning to other cultures for literary inspiration, but been nervous about navigating cross-cultural lines, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Creating Intriguing Heroes and Villains</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/10/31/creating-intriguing-heroes-and-villains/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/10/31/creating-intriguing-heroes-and-villains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Talk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese here&#8211;and Happy Halloween to everyone. Today&#8217;s guests are Janice Gable Bashman and Jonathan Maberry, authors of WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil, which seemed apropos today. From their bios: Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestseller, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner and a writer for Marvel Comics. He has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Painting in the Blanks</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/08/14/painting-in-the-blanks/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/08/14/painting-in-the-blanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brunonia Barry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brunonia Barry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first drafts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brunonia Barry on Painting in the Blanks

It isn’t the blank page that I find terrifying. It’s the idea of beginning. I can easily put words on a page, that’s not the problem. I often begin a new novel by doing something I've heard described as "clearing your throat." I usually write fifty to a hundred pages that I will never use, but within those pages I often discover the entire back story of each character and the journey those characters will take together.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>the research or the reader?</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/08/02/the-research-or-the-reader/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/08/02/the-research-or-the-reader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jael McHenry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RESEARCH]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=4354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every book requires research. Even if it’s set in your hometown and your protagonist is a whole lot like you, there will be some moment where you’re not sure of a fact – was the corner store there in 1994? Is it 15 miles to Waverly or 16? – and you will, in some way, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peeps Aren&#8217;t Only for Easter</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/06/21/peeps-arent-only-for-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/06/21/peeps-arent-only-for-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan O'Hara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REAL WORLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RESEARCH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writerunboxed.com/?p=3783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know Kathleen and Therese meant well when they asked me to offer my best writing advice, but I gotta tell you, the idea that I could presume to do so after being here less than three months? With the pedigree of you folks? Oy. The very concept made me break out in hives. Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Writing Comes Before Research, Or at Least at the Same Time</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/05/23/writing-comes-before-research-or-at-least-at-the-same-time/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2010/05/23/writing-comes-before-research-or-at-least-at-the-same-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Kisacky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome guest contributor Jeanne Kisacky to WU. Scholar and architectural historian, Jeanne was a finalist in our search for our unpubbed contributor, and we thought her essay was fantastic. Jeanne tells us &#8221;I&#8217;m a recovering architect (anyone interested in joining the charter chapter of Architects Anonymous, please contact me); and an escaped editor. For [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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