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		<title>Words Common in the U.S. that Differ in Spelling or Meaning in the U.K.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Words That Differ in the U.K. I was facilitating a writing workshop series some years back when a youthful participant commented that the British have some really weirdly spelled words. I good-naturedly told this lad that he needed to keep in mind that it was their language we&#8217;ve bastardized, not the other way around, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Use and Copyright Infringement&#8211;A loose Translation of Rights</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was asked to write a paper on the &#8220;Fair Use&#8221; section of the U.S. Copyright Law. I begged off the project, explaining that I didn&#8217;t feel remotely qualified. In all honesty, I don&#8217;t feel much better equipped today to address this issue, which I find enormously complicated. But so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editing to Excess</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps a better title for this article might be &#8220;Editors Gone Wild,&#8221; because it seems lately that I&#8217;m hearing about this way or that way to write something, and this is now the only way to design text. Spacing Started This Some Time Ago A few years back, the book reviewer with The Palm Beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time and Distance in a Narrative</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, a man who had served on the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier read me a scene from a war story he&#8217;d written.  The prose was fine, but the flow of his material was disrupted by constant references to military time, as if he were providing a report to his superior officer, on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etymology and It&#8217;s Importance When Writing Period Material</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Etymology and Its Importance to the Period in Which a Story Is Written Timing Is Indeed Everything I recently had the pleasure of editing a draft for a long-time client, with a storyline that took place in the 1600s. I found the plot immensely appealing, and everything was moving along swimmingly for me until I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metaphor Vs. Unacceptable Exaggeration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Action Has to Be Physically Possible I remember the first partial manuscript of mine an agent requested, 20 or so years ago, and how destroyed I was when it was sent back full of remarks written in red pencil. (Yes, in those days some agents would routinely edit a few pages and return them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listing a Manuscript with Ingram, Baker &amp; Taylor, and Amazon &#8211; What This Really Means</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Important to Recognize That a List Is Just That&#8211;and Nothing More Over the years, I can&#8217;t begin to count the number of times writers have contacted me, bubbling with enthusiasm, to let me know that a book of theirs was now listed with the major distributing venues, and they are now &#8220;on the way.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing New Material &#8211; When It&#8217;s the Best Time to Start</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When It&#8217;s Time to Write Something Else This might well be the single most important issue I will ever discuss, as it really is about letting a project go and beginning another. Dragging Along a Corpse Before &#8220;retiring&#8221; and editing for a living, I spent my entire career in sales. And by most standards I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paragraph Construction &#8211; How to Design the Perfect Paragraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, Consider Length Oddly, I&#8217;ve found the first issue to contend with is size. Some writers, especially when starting out to create a serious work, ignore paragraph length altogether. I often see material of Faulknerian proportions, and wonder if the writer had ever read anything as bulbous in the genre in which that person is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profanity in a Novel &#8211; What Works in Which Genres</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genre Trumps All Else This would seem to be so obvious that it doesn&#8217;t need to be mentioned, yet not understanding genre on the part of the author is a problem I find with a lot of material that&#8217;s sent to me to edit. Let&#8216;s Start with Literature and Mainstream Fiction Both genres cater to [...]]]></description>
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