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	<title>Writing Out Loud &#187; Fiction Writing</title>
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	<description>It&#039;s All About The Words</description>
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		<title>Rewriting And The Importance of Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his blog, David Hewson talks here about how changing one word when rewriting can make a huge difference to the atmosphere and &#8216;punch&#8217; of a scene. The word in question is &#8216;piss&#8217; and two examples are given &#8211; one &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/fiction/rewriting-and-the-importance-of-words">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Freewriting Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NonFiction Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Courses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a few years since I brought out my eBook, Write Out Loud, on freewriting, and people ask me if I still write that way? Am I still freewriting? Hmmmm, do ducks still swim? Of course I am. I don’t &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingcourses/the-freewriting-process">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Main Character a Wimp?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are your main characters lurking in the wings and refusing to take centre stage? Are they constantly upstaged by every bit player who walks across your pages? If so, you’re not alone. It happens to the best of us. There’s &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/fiction/is-your-main-character-a-wimp">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Your Writing Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Writing Rambles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrivener]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been written about the process of writing &#8211; how you go from initial glimmer of an idea to the final draft &#8211; and for good reason. It’s one of the things that most bugs new writers, and &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/finding-your-writing-process">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grabbing Creative Writing Ideas Before They Vanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clustering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mindmapping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just can’t see the wood for the trees. Story beginnings seem to be the most treeful area of writing. Creative writing ideas are there, but elusive. You grab hold of one and write, and within a minute or &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/fiction/grabbing-ideas-before-they-vanish">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First Drafts &#8211; Patchwork Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just read a post on Holly Lisle’s Talysmana site regarding first drafts and the writing process, which has sparked off a few thoughts of my own. One of the hardest things in writing, or learning to write, is learning &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/first-drafts-patchwork-writing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Homing in on the Senses</title>
		<link>http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/fiction/homing-in-on-the-senses</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[five senses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Effective writing demands the use of all five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting – but it also demands something else: the ability to see beyond the usual, to find the extraordinary in the commonplace, to get beneath the surface &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/fiction/homing-in-on-the-senses">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Word Pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/word-pictures</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard the saying about a picture being worth a thousand words, but I wonder how true that is. I’ve been thinking about the opposite just lately &#8211; that’s to say, not pictures being worth the words, but pictures &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/word-pictures">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do you admit to being a writer?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/do-you-admit-to-being-a-writer</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NonFiction Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by The Marmot I read something, somewhere, about the need to define yourself as a writer both inwardly, in your own mind, and outwardly, when talking to other people about what you do. I used to think that was &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/do-you-admit-to-being-a-writer">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrivener and The Pale Ones</title>
		<link>http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingdiary/scrivener-and-the-pale-ones</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pale Ones are now in Scrivener and I’m faced with the task of organising the scenes and getting to grips with the story again. Since the end of nano I’ve done very little fiction writing. Not because I didn’t &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingdiary/scrivener-and-the-pale-ones">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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