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		<title>Kickin it Dan Brown Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My writing style is usually influenced by whatever I&#8217;m reading at the moment. It so happens that someone gave me The Lost Symbol for Christmas. With that in mind, here&#8217;s a excerpt from my work in progress:



Client Operations Director Aloysius Wade opened the unmarked door to the company’s inner sanctum. The result of opening the [...]


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		<title>Philip, Clean And Whole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a bit of flash fiction I did for the Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 contest. Clocking in at 449 words, it’s my shortest piece so far. If you like it, you get a say in the outcome of the contest, so on June 15, go sign up at the Editor Unleashed message board and [...]


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		<title>New Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I completely forgot to mention here that I relaunched the Copyhacker site a couple of weeks ago! From now on, I&#8217;ll use it for quick posts&#8211;news and such&#8211;and continue to use this one for essays, nonfiction or whatever else crosses my mind (I refuse to use the word &#8220;musings&#8221;).

I&#8217;ve also been outlining a novel for [...]


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		<title>Amazon, Stanza, and&#8230; the End of Free Ebooks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some big news dropped yesterday in the e-reading world: Amazon acquired Lexcycle, makers of Stanza, the popular (and, dare I say, best) reading software for iPhone. I&#8217;ve used Stanza for months now and have read about half a dozen books and other works on it. I was as skeptical as everyone else about the ebook [...]


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		<title>Does Length Matter? Or, How To Save A Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading Novel &#38; Short Story Writer&#8217;s Market the other night.  The first third or so has interviews on different topics of interest to writers, which is great because I get to procrastinate shopping my story around while I read the interviews, instead of digging through the market listings.  In one [...]


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		<title>John Sterling Wants You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…to be his friend on Facebook and Twitter.




What are you waiting for? Viva la revolucion!

(I seem to say this a lot, but thanks to Bryan for the killer logo.)


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		<title>One Down!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the writing projects I&#8217;ve been working on over the last few months is a 6000-word short story called Ends.  I finally wrapped up the last edits and submitted it to a contest. It&#8217;s the first fiction of any real length that I can call a finished product.  While I decide where [...]


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		<title>We&#8217;re All Red On The Inside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out my earlier post could have come out of a book. The Big Sort, a blog over at Slate, is all about the culture war as viewed through the political lens. You could call it Freakopolitics. The blog is a spinoff of a book by the same name, which I just added to my [...]


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		<title>Let&#8217;s Play House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who aren’t following along on Twitter,  my first TVgasm recap is up.  Much to my relief, I get to do a show that I love (House), something with a bit of brains, instead of some knockoff reality show that I&#8217;m not interested in.  Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;ll still be [...]


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		<title>Stole the Words From My Mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m pimping Copyblogger again, but I couldn&#8217;t resist this guest post from &#8220;Writer Dad&#8221; Sean Platt:

Are You a Writer?

Sean, you&#8217;re now on my RSS short list.  I&#8217;ve wasted a lot of time over the last couple of years pussyfooting around wondering if I was good enough or &#8220;meant &#8221; to be doing this. [...]


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