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		<title>Needs More Sparkle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid in elementary school we had a program that was for &#8220;academically gifted&#8221; children.  Somehow I got included in this group.  I guess it had to do with standardized testing scores and teacher evaluations, but I&#8217;m not too sure how it was determined.  At this point in my life, I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Slang and Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The phenomenon you are about to read of is an atrocity that is being faced in classrooms across the US, from middle school through college, and it a blight upon the fair face of good writing conventions.  What could be so terrible as to warrant such a response?  Why, only the use of internet slang and text-speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fan Fiction: Where Stories Never End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fan Fiction is a type of writing where fans of a certain book or series of books, movies, or other serialized entertainment keep the story going, even after the original author has finished writing.  It is written by fans, who mostly try to stick as closely to the way things were in the original works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesale Fiction Writing Elements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is something people can be taught to do well. Many will argue that there is no way to teach writing, but that simply isn&#8217;t true. Writing at it&#8217;s most basic is just another skill a person can have, like flower arranging, or gardening. Some people have a an affinity for painting, a natural sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherlynmichaels.com/fiction-writing-elements/</link>
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		<title>Freelance Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freelance writing is not normally a very lucrative career for a writer, but it can be a great source of additonal income for anyone who has a day job, or who maybe writes full time as a staff writer for a newspaper or magazine and just wants to earn a little extra cash.  Payments for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a Novel Outline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new beginning, for me, is always embarked upon with an impatient eye for the new ending that necessarily glows in the distance with all the allure of a warm, crackling fire on a lightless, chilling winter&#8217;s eve.  What lies between page one and the end is at once a hindrance and a challenge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Add Hot Sauce to Your Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is a creation of characters dancing in the mind of the reader. A writer needs to develop a set of rules that go beyond mechanics; they need to have a self-induced warning light that functions like an alert. The system allows the person to avoid common mistakes as well as innate errors. One needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherlynmichaels.com/how-to-add-hot-sauce-to-your-writing/</link>
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		<title>Professional Writing in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional writing is an evolving profession. The rapid progress of communication and information technologies has forced this evolution upon everyone, even the unwilling grumps among us. The days of hammering away at a word processor, notes and papers spread across a table, may soon be over. Professional writing today requires a broader skill set, more [...]]]></description>
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