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      <title>November is National Novel Writing Month</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NaNoWriMo&rsquo;s Chris Baty shares five tips for writing your book in a month.<br />
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<em>by Chris Baty</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report: &lt;br&gt;Importance of  Writing Environment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m writing this piece in a coffee shop. I know, I know, you think of a coffee shop as a place where people slurp down their lattes as fast as burn prevention allows before leaping from their seats to make room for the next customer; a place where, if you dawdle for more than 10 minutes, you&rsquo;ll be force-fed the last morsel of your cranberry-orange scone and shoved onto the sidewalk by a bouncer who&rsquo;s hoping you give him an excuse to choke you out.<br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Word Play</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<b>Language holds a key role in writing humor. Here are six steps to help you find the perfect word to nail a punchline.</b>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Addressing Artistic Despair</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img width="75" hspace="10" height="105" align="left" src="/upload/images/11036-Pocket-Muse-2.gif" alt="" />Read the Introduction to <em>Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Your Novel Blueprint</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Turn your dream novel into a reality by taking some tips from the worksite and using this Story Plan Checklist.<br />
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by Karen S. Wiesner</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>This Writer's Life: &lt;br&gt;Instant Blogification</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In late 2006, my editor at <em>Writer&rsquo;s Digest</em> called me with an idea. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re putting together some blogs for our website. Do you want in?&rdquo; At the time, I was wary of the whole blogosphere. I&rsquo;d been under the impression that blogs were just online dream journals for tech-savvy, angst-ridden teenagers to share intimately detailed fantasies involving Prince William. Also, I&rsquo;m not good at the Internet, as evidenced by my tendency to use outdated search engines and refer to it as the &ldquo;Intranet.&rdquo; But I was curious. So I decided to get informed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report:&lt;br&gt;Fiction to Film</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to Write Fiction That&rsquo;s Ready For the Big Screen.<br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Build a Marketing Platform</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here are 10 simple steps that will take your visibility from zero to standout in a short time, while also giving you ample opportunities to flex your expertise, carve out your niche topic and connect with your audience.<br />
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by Christina Katz</em><br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>This Writer's Life:&lt;br&gt;No Longer So Awkward</title>
      <link>http://www.writersdigest.com//article/?p_ArticleId=6567</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Like most rookie writers, he thought his first attempt at a memoir was a masterpiece. One MFA later, he&rsquo;s embarrassed to admit he wrote that. <br />
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<em>by Kevin Alexander</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Anxiety Levels for Writers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What if the Office of Homeland Security developed a color-coded warning chart for the anxiety level of writers? Here's what we believe it'd look like. <br />
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<em>by WC Vasquez</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report:&lt;br&gt;The Four Types of Plagiarists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jason Roeder takes a humorous&nbsp; look at the generally non-humorous topic of plagiarism. <br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report:&lt;br&gt;You Can Write a Humor Book</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reader, you&rsquo;re hilarious. This has been verified by your mother, a co-worker who says you&rsquo;re one of the 20 funniest people he knows, and the stand-up comedy teacher who will tell you anything to get you to catch his set at the smaller of two mini-golf snack bars.<br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>This Writer's Life: &lt;br&gt;Agent Angst</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Medium-sized agencies handle your work with care, but the big guys may get you a six-figure deal. So, what&rsquo;s a writer to do?<br />
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by Kevin Alexander</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>3 Types of Prompts from The Writer's Book of Matches</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>This Writer's Life:&lt;br&gt;Giving It Up</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes a good kick in the pants to get your act together.<br />
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report:&lt;br&gt;Escaping the Slush Pile</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Your novel is finished. If you&rsquo;re like most writers, you put months, maybe years, into writing it and then you proofread it through the envelope on the way to the post office. But then what? What happens between the moment you send the manuscript off and the moment some intern turns a flamethrower on it? You might have heard that it sits atop a stack of nuisance submissions called a &ldquo;slush pile.&rdquo; But that&rsquo;s not actually true&mdash;it&rsquo;s probably not on top of the pile. <br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report: &lt;br&gt;Just Trying to Be Nice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I shared a short story with my writing group. It was a speculative work that dared to ask, &ldquo;What if the circus took over the world?&rdquo; The comments above were the three most encouraging I received from my cohorts. Of the two remaining members of my group, one handed me back my heavily wept-upon manuscript without a word, while the other simply dropped out of society. <br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Roeder Report: &lt;br&gt;Who Needs an Outline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wherever I go, everyone wants to know how I assemble the columns they occasionally skim once they&rsquo;ve finished <em>Writer&rsquo;s Digest</em>&rsquo;s useful content. Well, I describe my writing process like this: &ldquo;Writing is like driving. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip&mdash;what the hell was that? Did I just hit a deer? Aren&rsquo;t there laws requiring deer to wear reflectors? I should go back. No, no, nothing I can do now. If I happen to pass a roadside trauma center, I&rsquo;ll be sure to give them a heads-up. Now, which way is Mexico? &hellip; &rdquo; <br />
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<em>by Jason Roeder</em>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Miranda Rights for Writers’ Subjects</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sure, in the writer&rsquo;s mind, everyone&rsquo;s fair game for material. But just like run-ins with the law, all suspects&mdash;even those popping up in your fiction and memoirs&mdash;deserve a fair reading of their rights.<br />
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by Cindy Adams]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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