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		<title>Key Elements For Writing Marketable Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Writing Critiques and Reading Like A Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan was to spend January completing the first draft of a memoir and then going back to work on the NaNoWriMo novel revisions. That was the plan.
I did, however, get to work tangentially on writing. A friend asked me to be a beta reader on the first draft of her first novel. She&#8217;s published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Farther Behind But Getting Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I only got a couple of hundred words today because I&#8217;m desperately working on writing some training materials for a presentation on Monday. I&#8217;m taking a bit of extra effort on the materials because I hope to recycle them on my web site and with other clients, but it&#8217;s proving an enormous time and energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clock Is Ticking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at 12:01 a.m. NaNoWriMo starts and the clock starts running. I&#8217;m doing the NaNoWriMo to force me to complete a novel. I&#8217;ve started many and bogged down in the middle which led to eventual abandonment. This time I&#8217;m determined to make it through the first draft. Okay, I&#8217;m keeping this short because I&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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