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		<title>Ups and downs of writing for others</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/08/25/ups-and-downs-of-writing-for-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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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&blog=2734812&post=2124&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When anyone can be published&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reading fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in Salon that finally remembers the reader in the ongoing debate about the &#8216;new world&#8217; of publishing. Not that it&#8217;s good news for small writers and publishers, nor in the short term is it particularly good news for readers. But at least someone remembered the reader at last. Filed under: Reading fiction, Writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=2122&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&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>
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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&blog=2734812&post=2113&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extra energy and focus for writing</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/08/16/extra-energy-and-focus-for-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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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&blog=2734812&post=2107&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on the self-help industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading parenting books to give myself the illusion I am slightly more in control and prepared for giving birth, and some of the advice and language to do with interacting with your toddler or child (I read ahead) was repeatedly striking me as very familiar. At first I thought it was from my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=2097&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&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&blog=2734812&post=2099&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Pratchett gets quoted in some unusual places&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/08/11/terry-pratchett-gets-quoted-in-some-unusual-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[like this one, which features a quote from The Truth (as well as much needed perspective). Filed under: Reading fiction<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=2092&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gimmick non-fiction</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/08/02/gimmick-non-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fond of a certain type of usually-humour writing which I catagorise as &#8216;gimmick non-fiction&#8217;, or maybe a little more generously, &#8216;quest memoirs&#8217; &#8212; where someone, usually a young(ish) man, sets out on some oddball undertaking often involving physical discomfort, some travel, and/or embarrassment and other social difficulties, and often for a period of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=2085&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Terry Pratchett prize</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/07/01/new-terry-pratchett-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen but Now Prize is for aspiring novelists older than 18 living in the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth who have not had a book published. The winner will receive a publishing contract with Transworld plus a big advance. Entries close at the end of the year. From Sir [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=2061&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&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>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing tips and techniques]]></category>
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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&blog=2734812&post=2052&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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