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		<title>Being Okay With Trashing It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m a professional writer (ahem), I somehow feel better about trashing large chunks of my writing when it doesn&#8217;t work. Yesterday I was working on &#8220;Sweetest Poison,&#8221; trying to include more clarity about how the two main characters came to be traveling together. After writing about three pages of it, I realized it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride of the Pantser</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always prided myself on being a pantser &#8211; writing by the seat of my pants &#8211; and still think it is the most magical way to get a first draft down. Writing what the characters tell me to write, as they tell the story of their lives, is energizing and usually not aggravating. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Finish the damn thing first,&#8221; my inner voice screamed within the confines of my skull. &#8220;Edit later.&#8221; It&#8217;s good advice. I should get the first draft done before I go back to the beginning and put on my editor&#8217;s hat. Writer&#8217;s hat and editor&#8217;s hat are two different things, ya know. But I procrastinate, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Know I&#8217;m Getting Better</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of working on a new project last night, I opened up the beginning of a work in progress novel and reread the first few chapters. It felt like visiting a old friend from high school, even though I wrote it long after I left public education. The sentiment was still there. I still loved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Times Do You Edit?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I have an uber-editing disease. I have one novel that I have edited and proofread about 27 times. Why? I occasionally get the feeling it is because I am scared to let my baby out into the world, but then I realize that is other people talking. I&#8217;m not scared really, I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;M and the Inner Editor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During NaNoWriMo, the most popular refrain is &#8220;Kill the Inner Editor!&#8221; Now, I refuse to kill my inner editor, since I&#8217;m not completely convinced in the resurection of life. I need my editor, see, since I play on actually submitting my novel to publishers. But I don&#8217;t want to get bogged down in editing during [...]]]></description>
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