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		<title>Snowflakers.net</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Professional Critiques]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Strength To Strength]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snowflakers.net is going from strength to strength with more people posting everyday. Thanks to those that are responding with well thought out and professional critiques.
Writing for myself is on a bit of a hold at the moment, as I try to make sense of where my spare time is going and where perhaps it could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back story bad, front story good</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Critique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned a good lesson from this critique about first paragraphs by Randy today. Another thing to think about and consider whilst critiquing one&#8217;s own work. When Randy outlines what&#8217;s wrong with a piece of writing it all seems so obvious, yet didn&#8217;t flag at all when reading the paragraph previously. Time and experience again.
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		<title>Developing writing craft</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/developing-writing-craft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Attempts]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Disaster]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lark]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Moving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self Learning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Developer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s so much to learn about this craft. I’d have never thought about moving Ginny’s disaster to the end of the first chapter as in a recent post of Randy&#8217;s. To someone of Randy’s experience it probably seems obvious.
You certainly need time and experience to get used to this writing lark, that’s becoming more and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SnowFlakers.net : A forum for people using the snowflake method of writing a novel</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/snowflakersnet-a-forum-for-people-using-the-snowflake-method-of-writing-a-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/snowflakersnet-a-forum-for-people-using-the-snowflake-method-of-writing-a-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brand New Home]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Domain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spanking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing A Novel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now moved the forum off my blog domain to it&#8217;s spanking shiny brand new home:
http://snowflakers.net !
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		<title>One sentence summary discussions</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/once-sentence-summary-discussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentence Summary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As discussed on Randy&#8217;s blog, I&#8217;ve setup a forum for the discussion and critiques of one sentence summaries.
http://iainmnorman.com/forum
I&#8217;ve started the ball rolling with the sentence I&#8217;ve been working on this week.
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		<title>One sentence summaries are hard</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/one-sentence-summaries-are-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/one-sentence-summaries-are-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boy Scout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Critique]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plough]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Story Idea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Whittle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working up a story idea using the snowflake method. Step one is a lot harder than it looks. I&#8217;ve been hammering out similar one sentence summaries and trying to whittle it down bit by bit like a crazed boy scout.
Recent posts on the snowflake guys blog are a huge help, as both writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing one sentance summaries</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/writing-one-sentance-summaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Critique]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Insightful Responses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Novel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paragraph Summaries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randy Ingermanson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Snowflake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been concentrating on the early parts of Randy Ingermanson&#8217;s Snowflake Method, the one sentence and one paragraph summaries.
Earlier last week Randy offered to critique his readers&#8217; sample summaries. Reading these, and Randy&#8217;s insightful responses, has proved to be very educational. The main lesson for me has been how a broken summary highlights a broken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling to find the time</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/struggling-to-find-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fingers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Keyboard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Little Time]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pen To Paper]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pixels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randy Ingermanson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentances]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Step1]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Word Document]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zeroes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I&#8217;ve not put pen to paper, or rather fingers to keyboard, or is it pixels to screen. Perhaps even ones and zeroes into a bloated Word document!
Anyway no go as yet, lot&#8217;s of ideas swimming around my head, and lots of thinking going on. I have assembled a couple of Randy Ingermanson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to write a novel</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/how-to-write-a-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/how-to-write-a-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Day Job]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Distraction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How To Write A Novel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Little Bit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nine Steps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Novel Writer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opportunity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Outlines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Planning Stages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poor Performance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Press Coverage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programmer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Snowflake]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Word Processor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Write A Novel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To a geek like me, this website by Randy Ingermanson detailing how to write a novel seems to make great sense. As my friend Mac is so fond of saying, Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. So the detailed planning stages of Ingermanson&#8217;s snowflake method appeal to the inner programmer in me. In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gimmicks and originality</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/gimmicks-and-originality/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/gimmicks-and-originality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Characterisation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Execution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gimmicks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Originality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned before I have a problem with my ideas for stories being too full of gadgets and gimmicks rather than story. Some ideas I really like, and want to use. I&#8217;m not going to rule out gimmicks, just try to ensure that they are not used at the expense of characterisation.
Often when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do I write about?</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/what-do-i-write-about/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/what-do-i-write-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Consumption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gimick]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Good Question]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Point Of View]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sci Fi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good question. What am I going to write about? In my opinion some of the best fiction is character driven, let&#8217;s face it, most of the best fiction in fact. One of the problems I have, possibly to do with an over consumption of sci-fi or short stories, is that when thinking about a story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will I be able to write?</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/will-i-be-able-to-write/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/will-i-be-able-to-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guess]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Novel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Story Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Copy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What if I can&#8217;t write a good novel? I&#8217;ve been editing other peoples web copy for 12 years now, so I know that I can construct a decent sentance. The question is, can I tell a good story? I&#8217;ve been writing and running various RPG campaigns for 25 years, I don&#8217;t know if that helps. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deciding to be a &#8216;writer&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://iainmnorman.com/deciding-to-be-a-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://iainmnorman.com/deciding-to-be-a-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Norman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Close Friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Giving Up Smoking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Glory Days]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Novel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Path]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pension Plan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sketch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thinking About Things]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Write A Novel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m going to write a novel.&#8221; Many of us have said this, or thought it at least. Some start, most of them don&#8217;t finish. Those that do, rarely get published. 
So why become a writer. I have this feeling that if you are in it for the money then you may as well stop right now. [...]]]></description>
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