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	<description>Tips and tricks for wicked writers by Angela Wilson of Market My Novel.</description>
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		<title>What Stories Do Your Books Tell?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love to go to used book stores, yard sales and auctions to buy books. Inevitably, you find little personal details of the previous owners within them. Old photographs. Coins. Letters. I even found a four-leave clover in a book on superstitions. 
The Guardian&#39;s Theresa Malone has a terrific column about the life of books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Your Belly Button Taste Like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was reading a romance novel and got to the steamy sex scene.
The woman is all hot and bothered as the guy is running his tongue across her body. He gets to her waist and makes certain to delve his tongue into her belly button (which, of course, is situated just perfectly in her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Years to Write a Novel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is like bloodletting. It is horribly painful to do, but you MUST do it.
Today author J.R. Hauptman, a former airline pilot, talks in detail about his journey to publish The Target at Murder by Four.&#0160; It was a two-decade process that involved a ton of rejection, but continued dedication to the story and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relax or Multitask?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, I was a multitasking queen. I was organized, efficient and knew how to keep a meeting moving &#8211; though unfortunately I was usually one of the schmucks forced to sit through the droning of a boss who enjoyed hearing him/herself talk.&#0160;
I picked up the skills fast as a journalist and they just stuck. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors Talk Writing at Pop Syndicate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July is a special guest blogging month at Pop Syndicate. Recently, we had several terrific author posts dealing with different aspects of writing.
If you haven&#39;t already, be sure to check them out &#8211; and leave comments for the authors. I know they love to hear from other authors (and readers) about their writing journeys.
&#34;Writing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful, Deadly Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love weird news tidbits. They always do a lot to stimulate my imagination.
Today, Digg introduced me to the Environmental Graffiti blog post, &#34;10 Beautiful Yet Deadly Megatropolises.&#34; 
There are some odd factoids about the worst cities to live in because of pollution. santitation, overpopulation&#8230; the list goes on and on.
The photos I found the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Inner Writer in Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About six months ago (I refuse to think it was longer), I kept trying &#8211; and failing &#8211; to get into my manuscript DECEIVED.
It&#39;s a serial-killer-escapes-prison thing, with a hot romance erupting alongside the hunt for this Very Bad Man. I love serial killer stuff &#8211; always have. My personal reference library is filled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming Up a Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For the first time in a very long time, I dreamed of a scene for a new book.
This character just came to me a few days ago, her eyes haunted, her lonely soul calling out to me to tell her story. I don&#39;t know her very well right now, but I could easily envision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why My Writing Days Tank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And I wonder why I don&#39;t get any writing done?
 As I sat, Dee Whompus (She&#39;ll womp-n-knot-on-you if she&#39;s in a mood.) gets up and stretches from her cushy place on my office chair.
Oh, did I mention that I am frequently relegated to the very hard, white folding chair when my cats are in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wickedwordsmith.com/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Wicked Thoughts and So-So Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Writing erotica and romance isn&#39;t easy.
I struggle not so much with stories and plots and characters as personal convictions on if it is right to pen these stories or not.
Growing up in a conservative household (I&#39;m still conservative in politics) sometimes make it difficult to finish stories. Of course, having my mother constantly say [...]]]></description>
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