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	<title>Writing With One Hand Waving Free</title>
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	<description>Notes on a creative writing life</description>
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		<title>Beware Freelance Home Writers Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You! Yes, YOU! Can make thousands of dollars a week writing articles, blog posts and the occasional short story from the comfort of your home! Thousands of smart people like you are doing it!
And if you believe that I&#8217;ve got some desert property in South Louisiana to sell you.
About once a week I check my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/beware-freelance-home-writers-scam/</link>
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		<title>Nature Writing: the value of journaling for writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this is irony (unlike the song &#8220;Ironic&#8221; by Morissette)! My first post-lunch (a vast hoard of potluck foods and beverages from the Richard Hugo House volunteers and Costco) workshop was canceled, however, the workshop I wanted to attend at the start of the day replaced it. It&#8217;s enough to make me believe in being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/nature-writing-the-value-of-journaling-for-writers/</link>
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		<title>Ordinary People: a writing exercise to capture characterization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer and teach Margot Case offered a brilliant workshop at he Richard Hugo House Write-O-Rama workshop entitled Ordinary People. We read excerpts from “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” by Donald Bartheleme, Sixty Stories.
I&#8217;d tried The Dead Father by Bartheleme, but found it at the wrong time and had never tried Donald Bartheleme again. What a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/ordinary-people-a-writing-exercise-to-capture-characterization/</link>
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		<title>Memory Babe: a writing exercise inspired by Jack Kerouac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow! The beat goes on! Molten meltdown of mental memes send me searching shelves for slender volumes.
I&#8217;ve tried reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac three times in my life. I forced myself to finish it last time. But apparently I was reading the wrong Kerouac or the wrong format.
My 1st choice for second period [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/memory-babe-a-writing-exercise-inspired-by-jack-kerouac/</link>
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		<title>Pare It Down: a workshop on strong writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first Write-O-Rama workshop was &#8220;Pare It Down&#8221; with Anne Leigh Parrish. A workshop to get us to write simply and therefore strongly. Think Hemingway. Not one of my favorites. Not as pathetically macho as Mailer, but too focused so-called &#8220;masculine&#8221; values for me.
The idea was to choose strong words;  words of one syllable. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/pare-it-down-a-workshop-on-strong-writing/</link>
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		<title>Write-O-Rama at Richard Hugo House Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Write-O-Rama is a full-day smorgsbord of 1-hour workshops run as fundraiser for the  Richard Hugo House.  I arrived early. You never know about traffic and ferries coming from the Olympic Peninsula. Whenever I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll make a specific ferry that&#8217;s when I end up behind a caravan of RVs driven by near-sighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/write-o-rama-at-richard-hugo-house-begins/</link>
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		<title>Being Medievel in P.A. About Write-O-Rama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of those &#8220;Be Careful What You Wish For&#8221; parables, I&#8217;ve spent most of this year being terribly useful. Shortly after I started working on my NaNoWriMo revisions in February, I was hired to fill-in as Interim Executive Director for an area Chamber of Commerce during a particularly nasty internal dust-up. (Bit like the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/blog/being-medievel-in-pa-about-write-o-rama/</link>
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		<title>Tips on Writing the First Chapter and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ These are some more tips from romantic travel writer Janice MacDonald&#8217;s on First Chapters.

Don&#8217;t sweat it initially, it will change.
When you&#8217;re ready to return to it, consider the following:

start as close to the end without leaving out important information
open with action
quickly establish: who, what, where, when and why



These are some additional tips on writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/writing_how_to/tips-on-writing-the-first-chapter-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>Key Elements For Writing Marketable Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The essential elements of a marketable novel author Janice MacDonald teaches in her writing course are:

Hook
Sense of place
Interesting characters
Compelling dialogue (she&#8217;s English)
Strong storyline (one with a logical pattern)
Appropriate pacing
Distinctive voice
Particular point of view
Slowly revealed secret or answer (the presentation of information)

Ms. MacDonald refers to these as the &#8220;Furnishings.&#8221; She&#8217;s speaking of the traditional novel or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/writing_how_to/key-elements-for-writing-marketable-fiction/</link>
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		<title>John Truby&#8217;s 22 Plot Building Blocks</title>
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John Truby&#8217;s screenwriting courses and software are a staple of screenwriting classes worldwide. His book,The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, presents his &#8220;Twenty-Two Building Blocks&#8221; plot structure is a classic. I purchased one of his first video writing courses mumblety-mumblety years ago when I was writing comedy and spent a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolynecooper.com/writing/writing_how_to/john-trubys-22-plot-building-blocks/</link>
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