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		<title>Writers, put your big girl panties on&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/12/09/writers-put-your-big-girl-panties-on/</link>
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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&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2150&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;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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		<category><![CDATA[The writing life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[making money]]></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&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2113&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extra energy and focus for writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing tips and techniques]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned from dabbling in popular science books about cognitive psychology (I have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology back in my murky past, but I never had as much fun studying the subject formally as I have had reading about the results of various specialist areas presented for a general [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2107&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the silliest argument against ebooks yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fully understand people&#8217;s resistance to ebooks beyond the logistics (DRM, device-locked, geographic restrictions, price) and their attachment to paper books, and the first part of this argument is valid&#8230;but the second? Smudges? Really? Filed under: Reading fiction, Writing tips and techniques<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2099&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reader question: does historical fiction need murder?</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/06/24/reader-question-does-historical-fiction-need-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following question the other day: Does a historical fiction novel have to have a murder in the storyline? My answer No, not at all -– think of the historical timing as the setting. The plot can still be anything that works within the confines of that setting –- romance, family melodrama, spy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2052&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/04/25/happy-links-for-readers-and-writers-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker has an article about ebooks and the iPad versus the Kindle and Amazon versus Apple and the publishers. As per usual, lots of input from the publishers in this article, not a lot from the readers who actually want to buy ebooks and are being put off by the trifecta: DRM, pricing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1930&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-paying editor: writers be warned</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/04/19/non-paying-editor-writers-be-warned/</link>
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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>
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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&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1920&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New writer? Reading comprehension skills really help</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/04/08/new-writer-reading-comprehension-skills-really-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look, I&#8217;ve been in the publishing business for approximately 0 seconds, and I already have a great deal of sympathy for editors (except the ones who don&#8217;t pay&#8230;more on that next week, if she hasn&#8217;t coughed up) now I&#8217;m experiencing the other side of the submissions process. I&#8217;m publishing book-length character-driven speculative fiction by Australian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1904&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEbook is a community place for writers to get feedback and possibly a shot at publication. They have in beta their PagetoFame set-up, where readers vote submitted manuscripts through a series of ratings, from the first page, to the first chapter, to the first 50 pages, to the whole thing &#8211; submissions making it through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1882&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, the alpha male. No thanks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Soulless by Gail Carriger over the weekend, which is an enjoyably light read featuring both vampires and werewolves in a steampunk setting. Being a romantic comedy in which the male lead is a werewolf (thank goodness; wouldn&#8217;t have touched it if he&#8217;d been a vampire), there&#8217;s lots of references to Alpha and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1862&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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