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		<title>New Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or is it rather dusty in here? Obviously I have not been keeping this blog alive, and at the moment I have no plans to resuscitate it. I am, however, keeping a different site up to date - www.branchingroot.com &#8211; so feel free to head over that way if you&#8217;re interested.]]></description>
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		<title>Jealous Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the web site to a point that I&#8217;m pretty happy with. (Click on the &#8220;Magic Bound&#8221; link to the right and you&#8217;ll see it.) I&#8217;ve had fun playing with the graphics and the layout on this one. I&#8217;ve also had fun coming up with some of the background information I put on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2010/02/jealous-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Plotting Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had to plot out a new story for a long time. I&#8217;d forgotten how hard it can be. I&#8217;m in the brainstorming stage: writing down lists of ideas, no matter how good or bad they seem to be. Soon, hopefully, those ideas will coalesce into something that resembles a feasible plot. Going by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2010/02/plotting-away/</link>
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		<title>Filling Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what does one do when taking a month away from one&#8217;s current book? (Which not only gives beta readers a stab at it but also gives you relatively fresh eyes when returning to it. Very important, in my opinion.) &#8220;Take a break&#8221; sounds nice. But it has problems. For one thing, at least for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2010/02/filling-time/</link>
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		<title>On Finishing and Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have finished the second draft of the book, finished revisions on it, and begun sending it out to the people who have agreed to read it. Eeek! I&#8217;m feeling an interesting mix of relief and excitement from finishing, nervousness from people reading it, and dread from the next cycle of revisions coming up. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2010/02/on-finishing-and-feedback/</link>
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		<title>A Halloween Funny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is too good not to share. Agent Jennifer Jackson&#8217;s take on how query letters are similar to various Halloween-appropriate creatures: http://arcaedia.livejournal.com/214600.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2009/10/a-halloween-funny/</link>
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		<title>When to Push</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still learning when and how I can push myself into writing. I seem to have cycles, times when it&#8217;s easy to write and times when it&#8217;s very hard. (Hm. I just realized that I should be tracking this, to see if it matches up with anything else.) One difficulty &#8211; and I think I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2009/10/when-to-push/</link>
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		<title>Publishing in Chaos and the Aspiring Author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an interesting week in publishing. I feel like I ought to say something about ebooks or discounted book prices. (For reference, three new ebook readers were announced this week, and big box stores have been in a low-price war over a few bestselling books.) But, really, there&#8217;s not much for me to say. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2009/10/publishing-in-chaos-and-the-aspiring-author/</link>
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		<title>Quantity Helps Quality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is like practicing an instrument. I remember as a kid I always hated practicing, but when I actually sat down and did it, it was kind of fun. (I have no issues with practicing now. Nope. None at all.) And sitting down to write, getting my hands on the keyboard, is sometimes the hardest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andreamcelwain.com/2009/10/quantity-helps-quality/</link>
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		<title>Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a couple blog posts lately on the subject of dreams and writing. I&#8217;ve never written down what little I remember from my dreams, but I probably should, because I&#8217;ve woken up from a few thinking that they&#8217;d make a really good story. Or maybe a story idea. Dreams &#8211; at least my dreams [...]]]></description>
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