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		<title>Why you still have to cut your favorite parts&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m revising part of my latest book.  I&#8217;m trying to delve deeper into the characters and their world without giving a bunch of backstory or too many details.  I don&#8217;t want it to get boring.  I don&#8217;t want to &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/why-you-still-have-to-cut-your-favorite-parts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=764&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inheritance by Christopher Paolini</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what to say here.  I bought the book.  I finished.  And&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.  I really enjoyed the first two books in this series.  The third one I liked, except that I thought it was too long &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/inheritance-by-christopher-paolini/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=747&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendation:  The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, yes, I&#8217;ve been gone for a while, but it&#8217;s for a good reason.  I&#8217;ve been reading, and reading, and reading&#8230;oh and writing.  I&#8217;m going to try to catch upon all the books I&#8217;ve read, but I wanted to start &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/book-review-the-seven-realms-series-by-cinda-williams-chima/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=734&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So&#8230;.I finished!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Saturday night I finished the first draft of a new novel.  Yes, it&#8217;s YA.  And yes, it&#8217;s fantasy (with a lot of romance).  I&#8217;m super excited for this one.  I&#8217;ve written a draft of a query letter that&#8217;s gotten &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/so-i-finished/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=731&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A note on writing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blog entry from the blog of someone I know from a writing forum.  For those of you who don&#8217;t understand writing or think it&#8217;s easy, this is for you. http://www.dawnraemiller.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=siteContent.default&#038;objectID=98519<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=729&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-publishing is actually getting some legitimacy&#8230;sort of.</title>
		<link>http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/self-publishing-is-actually-getting-some-legitimacy-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there&#8217;s been a lot of talk lately about whether to self publish or not.  I even attended a writers conference where an agent actually said there are two legitimate ways of getting published:  the traditional method with an agent, &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/self-publishing-is-actually-getting-some-legitimacy-sort-of/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=723&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pitch Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So one of my writer friends is having a pitch contest with her agent.  The prizes are critiques of full and partial manuscripts!!!  Totally worth it if you have a completed manuscript you&#8217;re ready to submit. Here&#8217;s the link if &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/pitch-contest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=720&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Vacation: Yellowstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we took the kids to Yellowstone over the Fourth of July weekend.  It was awesome, and beautiful, and&#8230;great!  The kids weren&#8217;t always big fans of the driving, but the animals, waterfalls, geysers, springs, mud pots, sulfur smell (and yes, &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/family-vacation-yellowstone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=713&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendation&#8230;&#8221;Anna and the French Kiss&#8221; by Stephanie Perkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, &#8220;Anna and the French Kiss.&#8221;  This is a book I&#8217;d heard a lot about from a group of ladies on a forum I belong to.  Some of them loved it some thought it was just good.  I don&#8217;t read &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/book-recommendation-anna-and-the-french-kiss-by-stephanie-perkins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=690&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendations&#8230;&#8221;Matched&#8221; by Ally Condie&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;ve decided not to call them &#8220;book reviews&#8221; any longer.  I think it&#8217;s better for me to call them book recommendations and then only let you know about the books I would actually tell someone to read.  It&#8217;s not &#8230; <a href="http://shariwrites.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/book-recommendations-matched-by-ally-condie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shariwrites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3865435&amp;post=684&amp;subd=shariwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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