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			<title><![CDATA[Point Of View And Other Devices]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the most important decisions you will make in writing your story is choosing which point of view to use. The point of view is the "head" or "camera angle" from which the action will be filtered. Depending on which source you study, there are a variable number of points of view to choose from. However, I have selected the five I think are most often used.  Read this article to learn more.<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Sandy Tritt)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keep It Active]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If the first rule of writing is Show, Don't Tell, the second should be Keep It Active. Active voice is what puts us in the middle of the action and allows us to feel. Passive voice is what gives us the feeling that someone is telling us a story that happened once upon a time.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Sandy Tritt)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breathing Life into Characters]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Giving life to a character is one of the most rewarding parts of being a writer. It is also one of the most difficult. Too many times in fiction we witness the "cardboard" or one-dimensional character. Real characters, those we can visualize and root for and love, aren't created with the snap of a finger. Instead, they develop over time, over many hours spent together.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Sandy Tritt)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breathing Life into Dialogue]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have you ever read a court transcript? It accurately gives a word-by-word report of exactly what is said. But it is interesting?<br/><br/>Uh-uh. If we wrote verbatim the way we talk, our readers would execute us at dawn (or maybe earlier). So what do we do to create "natural" dialogue?<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Sandy Tritt)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Avoid Creative Dialogue Tag Sydrome]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Misuse of dialogue tags can weaken your writing.  Learn how to use them properly with Sandy Tritt.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Sandy Tritt)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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