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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>Ups and downs of writing for others</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The writing life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article with Joss Whedon Filed under: The writing life, Writing news<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=2124&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>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/08/19/i-do-not-write-for-free-counter-intuitively-damaging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The philosophy of writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The writing life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing tips and techniques]]></category>
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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>Non-paying editor: writers be warned</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The writing life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often write short stories and it&#8217;s even rarer that I (try to) sell any, so this is the first time I&#8217;ve been stuck with this issue: an editor has failed to pay me for a short story and is ignoring my follow-up emails. I&#8217;d give her the benefit of the doubt and suggest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1920&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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading fiction]]></category>
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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>Musket fantasy, new trend for the fantasy genre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were talented, I&#8217;d do this with my insomnia. Instead, I shall point out a coincidence. I&#8217;m chugging along with my next publication, final edit&#8217;s done, title&#8217;s chosen (Bastard&#8217;s Grace), tentative date is set for Feb 2010, I&#8217;m pleased with the uniqueness of my musket-totting part-hero, part-renegade male lead character in his 1700s world&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1515&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Futuristic Motherhood anthology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a short story published in the new anthology, Futuristic Motherhood: Alternative Visions of Motherhood, speculative fiction stories about the future of motherhood. My contribution is about a woman coming home from a failed colony to meet the now-adult daughter she left behind on Earth. ETA: the editor of this anthology did not pay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes idle fancies should remain just that</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the other day, which I enjoyed, but which really just made me want to go back and re-read the original, and then a particular line caught my eye and I thought, I bet there&#8217;s Darcy/Bingley slash out there. And then another line caught my eye and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1470&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rejecting genre fiction vs growing up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Guardian says, don&#8217;t patronise popular fiction by women. Patronise in the negative sense, not the positive sense. The attitude talked about here, where women will read books aimed at women OR men, whereas men refuse to even try books written by or marketed to women, is so common as to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1442&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I did</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2009/09/05/how-i-did-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a couple of hundred words written &#8211; nowhere near my target, but it is clear to me now that the target needs adjusting. The fact of the matter is, I&#8217;m currently trying to: market my new release edit my manuscript from last year re-write my NaNoWriMo novel from several years ago do my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&amp;blog=2734812&amp;post=1230&amp;subd=wendypalmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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