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		<title>Spare My Books</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/spare-my-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t often write or quote poetry here, but Burn&#8217;s poem struck a chord with me, especially since I had to battle silverfishes in my previous apartment. I&#8217;d freak out each time I saw one, thinking I&#8217;d wake up the next morning and half my book collection would be eaten&#8230; which is ridiculous, of course, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2347&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Living Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/a-living-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My writing group asked: Can you perhaps submit something for next week? I know I had a short story on my computer that I thought was ready to be read by others. So I said yes. This morning I figured it might be wise to read it again before submitting it. The problem was, however, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2340&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Amazon Require Self-Published Authors to Have Editors? </title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/should-amazon-require-self-published-authors-to-have-editors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 07:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecile's writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Story Addict: This has been in the back of my mind for a while. To be honest, I don’t think it’s feasible for Amazon or any other publishing platform to require this of its self-published authors, but let’s speculate, shall we? The Pros A lot of self-published authors plunge into publishing without realizing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2336&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Opposite Sex</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/the-opposite-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samir</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chekhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female psyche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flaubert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handelsman cartoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Barnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madame Bovary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opposite sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Fiction No.165]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Paris Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turgenev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing female characters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vanessa&#8217;s post &#8216;A Different Perspective&#8216; got me thinking about my own process when writing the opposite sex. Although I often prefer to stick more to the male characters (I do understand them better), I also have to work with female characters. I&#8217;d start off by saying its fun. Lots of fun. And difficult. Capturing the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2332&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/musical-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 05:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alan parson project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[music inspiration for writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradise by the dashboard light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hebrides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wedding dance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I made a list of all the things that had to be organised for a wedding, my initial thought was ‘that’s it?’ I knew that this couldn’t be true. And joy, was I proven right. Luckily, I had two very helpful wedding MCs who helped me out. One of the last things [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2308&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers by Muli wa Kyendo</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/whispers-by-muli-wa-kyendo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samir</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whispers is a novellette I stumbled upon in a second hand bookstore, in a town I&#8217;d been to only that one time. Going straight to the publication details of the book, I saw it was by a Kenyan author, and as I&#8217;m always interested in African writers, I bought it. Besides, who can refuse an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2320&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dublin Writers Museum</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/dublin-writers-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My partner and I decided it would be nice to go away for a couple of days after the wedding. While Rome is romantic just like Paris, my Italian is non-existant and I can hardly remember anything from French. And the idea of the next couple of days is that we can relax. So I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2312&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Feeling You Get When You Know It&#8217;s Just Right.</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/that-feeling-you-get-when-you-know-its-just-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sofia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know when a sentence is correct or not? As any native speaker of any language will tell you: it&#8217;s correct because it feels right. Of course, if you&#8217;ve studied linguistics, you might reply with something a little more high brow. You might refer to the &#8220;correct&#8221; or &#8220;incorrectness&#8221; of the grammar/wording/syntax/pronunciation/etc. Now, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2297&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Perspective</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/a-different-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[first person]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[on writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vanessa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never written stories where the main character is a male, as I&#8217;ve always stuck to female protagonists. So does this matter? And what does it say about my writing? I began thinking about this after reading a prompt that suggested writing a first person narrative, assuming the voice of someone from the opposite gender. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2291&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back On the Road</title>
		<link>http://cecileswriters.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/getting-back-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cecile's writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[characters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[E.L.Doctorow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[novel writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For almost two years now, I&#8217;ve been ignoring a young adult book I&#8217;d started writing. The printed out pages of critiqued chapters lay on the corner of my desk, haunting me, reminding me that there&#8217;s story which is far from finished. I&#8217;m not really sure why I stopped writing it. I could blame the circumstances [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cecileswriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24825779&#038;post=2282&#038;subd=cecileswriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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