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		<title>Generating Story Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[generating story ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generating a story idea can sometimes be akin to a painful birth. Every writer has had experience with writer’s block. But that usually comes in the midst of writing a story. There are different techniques for handling that type of block. But what happens when you simply run out of ideas? Where do authors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manuscript Style for Submission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manuscript style is incredibly important when submitting to a publisher or literary agent. Most writers think the fancier the better. You want to catch that editor’s eye and show off your great talent and skills at designing your layout, right? Wrong. Just plain wrong. Editors could care less if you have cutesy little boxes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I get published?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[research book markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day, someone wrote me and said, “I just wrote a story. How do I get it published?” I about fell out of my chair laughing. That is the million-dollar question, isn’t it? The answer is so complex I didn’t even know where to begin. What’s the genre? How long is it? What’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Excuses for Even Worse Grammar: “But it’s my Voice!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punctuation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[breaking punctuation rules]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an editor, I run into the worst of the worst in bad grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. The most common excuse I hear is, “But it’s my Voice! You can’t change it or it loses all of my creativity!” Let me give you some advice. If you need to violate all the rules of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalization Rules for Life, Part 3 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalizing ethnic groups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We come to the end of a fine series of articles on capitalization. We have already been through the most common mistakes I find as an editor, and now I will present some not-so-common mistakes I run across. Titles Capitalize titles if they precede a name; use lower case if not. General Grant won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalization rules for life, part 2 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalization with colons and in dialogue is our topic for today. We start with the colon, where the rules are simple. First of all, the colon is used in three basic ways: To introduce a list of items using “pointing out” expressions (e.g., “as follows,” “the following,” or any other phrase that ‘points out’ and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalization rules for life, part 1 of 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalizing book titles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalization seems like a pretty basic subject, right? WRONG! As an editor, I see violation after violation of very basic principles of capitalization that we all learned in grade school…or at least,should have learned. There are rules to capitalization. The basic ones – the ones I find need little explanation are these: Always capitalize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Voice: The Downfall of Many Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active voice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many writers erroneously believe that using passive voice creates a sophisticated and ‘literary’ feel to their work. Others don’t even really know what passive voice is. The bottom line is you should avoid passive voice as much as possible in favor of direct action. 1.  Passive Voice – What it is The best way to grasp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The struggle to become a freelance writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(First published November 2010) It’s been a little over a year now since I made the leap to freelance writing and editing. It’s been a tough road financially. In the beginning, I worked and slaved over projects and building a reputation. I started in the Elance community and grew into my own websites on word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Word About Marketing and Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darcie Carsner Torres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[author marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[author marketing tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketing and self-promotion aren’t necessarily things that we as writers are good at. After all, we just want to write the stories and books that we love and damn the world to Hell if they don’t love us. Wrong attitude. Authors are, at heart, egomaniacs. We are driven not only by the desire to write, [...]]]></description>
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