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		<title>From the Dark Side</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the Ruins on Borphyr Road]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before (here and elsewhere) about the writing workshop I participated in, fifteen-some years ago. An odd cast of characters, maybe: three writers of poetry and literary fiction then seeking their graduate degrees in English, with an emphasis on creative writing; one writer of comic action stories (think Carl Hiaasen, maybe with a touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Greener&#8221; Other Side of the Fence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Faust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agent Jessica Faust of the BookEnds, LLC blog, on &#8220;Offering Representation to Published Authors,&#8221; seeks to reassure new authors that things could be worse for them: they might have a track record. If a previously published author comes to me seeking representation, I need to, of course, look at the new work to see if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting It Out of My System (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[first novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POV]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trapdoor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 1 of this N-part series was here.) Let&#8217;s see, where were we&#8230; Oh. Right. I&#8217;d just posted excerpts from the Prologue to Crossed Wires, my 1992 mystery, and Chapter 1 from its never-published sequel, Trapdoor. And I said that the differences between those two excerpts sprang from &#8220;something&#8221; that happened in the roughly one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting It Out of My System (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[In a post a few days ago, I started to nose around my "issues" with writing mysteries, thrillers, and the like. This is the perfect time do something I really don't like to do, much -- to lay out the story behind one of my formative experiences as a writer: the publication, in 1992, of [...]]]></description>
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