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		<title>The Importance of Maintaining the Author&#8217;s Voice When Editing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not uncommon for authors at all levels to be wary of editorial assistance if this means it will involve actually omitting or adding material to their drafts. When completed, will it still be &#8220;my&#8221; work? is the question on these writers&#8217; minds.
Handled Correctly, the Writer Will Notice Only One Thing
This single issue is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Dialogue&#8211;Techniques to Remedy the Overuse of Speaker Attributes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Two People Are Speaking, Less Is More
It&#8217;s always crucial to make certain the reader knows who&#8217;s speaking, but when it is just two people, it&#8217;s not necessary for one to identify the other in every other sentence: &#8220;John, it&#8217;s wonderful to see you again.&#8221; &#8220;Martha, I&#8217;m so glad you feel that way.&#8221; &#8220;Why, John, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Begin Dialogue in a Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first thing that everyone learns about writing dialogue is that we can't write exactly in the way people speak any more than we can speak in the identical manner in which people write. ]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Meant By a Tic in Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people associate a &#8220;tic&#8221; with the spelling &#8220;tick&#8221; and think of it as the little parasite that sucks the hemoglobin from someone&#8217;s pooch. Then it becomes not so little anymore as it morphs into a giant sac of blood in a host that&#8217;s hard to kill even when squished. I find it appropriate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Major Characters Must Change for a Story to Be Effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main principles behind sound plot development is the change a major character must experience for the storyline to be effective. And make no mistake about it, this character must be different at the end of the story from what the writer presents at the outset. Yet the ability to show the changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plot Holes and How They Can Destroy a Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an editor, I find nothing more uncomfortable than having to tell a writer about a flaw in a draft that pertains to a plot hole. And often I&#8217;ll be asked to define this tear in the fabric of a story that makes a section of the narrative unrealistic for what I refer to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Conflict in a Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To have any chance of engaging the reader, the number-one challenge is to create conflict as soon as possible and make it powerful enough to propel the story.  The famous editor Irwin R. Blacker feels it&#8217;s so important that he quotes Aristotelian theory, which I&#8217;ve bastardized as follows: If the conflict is not great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Plot Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an article on plot believability and was asked if this was the same as story authenticity, since both seem to imply the same thing. In some respects they are alike, but in other ways they are dissimilar. Believability relates to the feasibility of situations occurring in the manner in which they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Plot Believabilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With respect to a plot's believability, sometimes writers ask, "If it's fiction, so why should it matter?" Just because a narrative is fictional, this doesn't mean the story elements should not be factual. This article points to reasons why believability is so important.]]></description>
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		<title>Common Words and Phrases That Are Used Incorrectly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is exposed to the common bugbears in English in grammar school, then as we become more educated we learn that the rules aren&#8217;t universal, nor are they applied uniformly. This article deals with some elements of our language that seem to have become more confused over time.
&#8220;Less&#8221; and &#8220;Fewer&#8221; Lead the Pack
Let&#8217;s start with [...]]]></description>
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