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		<title>Words that Define in Absolute Terms and Those that Don&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words that Define In Absolute Terms and Those that Don&#8217;t
Amateur writing is full of misused modifiers and other syntax culprits that foul a narrative, but nothing may be more glaring than the improper use of some of the rudiments of rhetoric such as &#8220;a&#8221; and &#8220;the&#8221; or &#8220;will not&#8221; and &#8220;would not.&#8221;
Tex Must have Entered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Word Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Does Word Count Matter?
It&#8217;s a common question, and not one that can be easily answered, if at all, but I&#8217;ll attempt to offer at least some degree of clarification.  However, it must be kept in mind that much of what is written in this article will be nugatory if in ten years almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing &#8211; Understanding Point of View</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note before reading this piece that it is lengthy, almost 1500 words. But since the agents, publishers, and the other professional editors I know feel that Point of View is not a subject to be taken lightly, I decided it should not receive short shrift.
Some Writers Fight to the Death of their Material Defending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Becoming Published &#8211; What a Book Editor Really Does</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read something that leads to me to feel that the field of professional developmental book editing needs to be covered in detail.
Editors in the U.S. have a Poor Reputation Abroad.  Really?
I happened upon an Internet message board for writers on which someone was asking if hiring an editor to critique a novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing for Publication &#8211; When is the Best Time to Hire a Book Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know when, on the writing curve, Stephen King or Nelson DeMille might seek editorial advice, only that it is documented that they do. So it begs the question, for the writer trying to break into the business with a major royalty publisher&#8211;and who accepts that a professional editor looking at the manuscript might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Literary Agency Sales and Contacting the Right Agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If querying literary agents isn&#8217;t difficult enough, how is a writer who is attempting to break into the business supposed to decipher the sales figures that are posted by major agents in areas such as the Dead Reckoning section of Agent Search (which is superb by the way) when individual statistics during a 12 month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing &#8211; When Not to Hire a Book Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short time ago I received a request to review an author&#8217;s query letter.  It was awful.  The letter was written in a structure that would make a seventh-grade English teacher cringe.  And as is commonly the case with writers who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the publishing industry, the genre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Query Letter Writing Fact and Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fact:  Query Letter Writing is an Art Form.  
Make no mistake about it, writing queries that produce results is a craft.  
Fact:  A query should not be written like a synopsis.  
I devoted an entire article to this, yet writers who have read the piece continue to send me sample [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Not to Include in a Query Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who professionally edit manuscripts spend a great deal of our time providing our clients with query letter assistance.  And happily so.  Because if we&#8217;re not coaching those who use our services on how to write effective query letters, a lot of very good authors are often unaware of some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up with a Great Opening for a Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more critical than the first few lines of a story, since this will often influence whether or not a reader will continue with a work.  And a great opening is never more important than for both the budding author who is trying to acquire an agent or publisher and the non-established writer [...]]]></description>
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