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		<title>Writers, put your big girl panties on&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some motivational speech for us all this morning. Filed under: The philosophy of writing, The writing life, Writing tips and techniques<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=2150&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow food, slow travel&#8230;now slow reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article (from July) about what we might be losing in a digital-based world&#8230;the art of slow reading. Filed under: Reading fiction, The philosophy of writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=2142&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I do not write for free&#8221; &#8212; counter-intuitively damaging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a mantra in writing advice that you should never give away your writing for free. Writing as a specialised skillset has become so devalued by the interaction between cheapskate publishers and writers desperate to be published that it&#8217;s a race to the bottom to see if they can get us to pay them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=2113&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Pratchett, shaking hands with death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Terry Pratchett recently gave the annual Richard Dimbleby lecture, the first novelist to do so. You can read an edited extract here, but I recommend committing the highly illegal act of watching it on uTube. The speech was actually delivered by Tony Robinson. And this is because the rare form of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1787&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A giant company named Virago&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;wants to automatically replace words in books with synonyms. Amazon (for which Virago is a perfectly acceptable synonym, both having at least one sense referring to a large, agressive woman) has patented a &#8216;System and Method for Marking Content&#8217;. This &#8220;programmatically&#8221; substitutes synonyms into (electronic) text like books, reviews, news articles etc so that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1435&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Home On Time Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers will notice I have skipped my regular blog posts this week. This is because I have been busy. Though not in the good Las Vegas way. Which leads me to mention that The Australia Institute has declared November 25 to be national Go Home On Time Day. It is, and I quote, &#8220;in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1429&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little idea of the point of what you&#8217;re writing today?</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2009/10/15/little-idea-of-the-point-of-what-youre-writing-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had little idea what the point of it was, but it was a trick that I could do.&#8221; So John Sulston writes in his book, co-written by Georgina Ferry, The Common Thread, about the international scientific effort to map the human genome (and how private interests sought to sabotage the government-funded collaboration for their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1371&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tabourot&#8217;s Law: after you scream but before you give up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tabourot&#8217;s Law is a concept you might have only come across should you be learning to play the theremin. In fact, until this post, the phrase &#8220;Tabourot&#8217;s Law&#8221; was almost a googlewhack &#8211; except I&#8217;m cheating because true googlewhacks only happen with two words but no quote marks. You&#8217;re saying, &#8220;shut up about the googlewhacking, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring your success as a writer</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2009/07/02/measuring-your-success-as-a-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few weeks, I have been discussing how the art of writing intersects with commercial success. First I said that it&#8217;s already hard to write, but even harder when you choose your genre solely based on what you think will sell, rather than what you love. Then I pointed out that most writers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=797&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marcus Graham agrees with me</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2009/06/25/marcus-graham-agrees-with-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Elvis&#8230;um, Marcus Graham. In this article, Graham talks about his career trajectory. In particular, and in relation to my last few weeks of posts, the article begins: MARCUS GRAHAM tells a funny story about the moment, many years ago now, when he gave up on Hollywood. It meant, as for any actor, letting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=757&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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