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		<title>Vol. 23 &#8211; Getting Your Manuscript Critiqued</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to become a better writer, if you’ve written something and want an opinion on it, or if you feel your piece is ready for publication, it’s a good idea to get some feedback before you submit to a publisher. And not just from your best friends and family, either. At some point, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=87&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ezine: Vol. 22- March 2009: How to Critique a Manuscript</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to become a better writer is to learn how to critique the work of others. It can feel strange at first, especially when you can’t seem to find anything negative to say.   Always start out by asking the author what kind of critique they are looking for. Sometimes the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=82&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ezine: Vol. 21- December 2008: My Publication Journey&#8230;So Far</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY PUBLICATION JOURNEY…SO FAR   My first published novel releases April 1, 2009 from Marcher Lord Press. It’s a medieval fantasy called By Darkness Hid, the Blood of Kings, book one. I’m super excited about it. So far it’s been a really interesting journey.   Here’s the back of the book blurb: Given the chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=78&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 20- November 2008: Write Specific</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you’re learning, it’s tough to write specific. Your goal at this point is to simply finish a chapter or a book. But once the book is complete, and you’re combing through it in rewrite mode, you want to seek out bland words, fluff words, needless words, and poor sentence structure. This will make your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=75&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 19 October 2008- How to Write a Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently started Novel Teen Book Reviews, a Web site and blog dedicated to promoting inspirational young adult fiction of all genres. I did this because people ask me all the time to recommend books to them for their kids. Since I also write inspirational young adult fiction, and understand readers aren’t finding the books, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=49&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 18 September 2008- Writing a Novel Part Five: Dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dialogue is arguably the most important part of a novel. It’s always action, so it should move the story along, create tension, and give unique voices to the characters. Your goal in writing a novel is to give your readers a powerful emotional experience. Dialogue is a great way to show emotions. New writers often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=47&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 17: August 2008- WRITING A NOVEL PART FOUR: VOICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I had the privilege of taking author Melody Carlson’s morning session at the Oregon Christian Writers’ Conference. It was amazing. Melody has written around 200 books in the last twenty years. An average of ten books a year is a lot of writing. Melody told us a story about a time when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=45&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 16: July 2008- TOP TEN AUTHOR QUOTES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10. A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? –George Orwell   9. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=43&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 15: June 2008- WRITING A NOVEL PART THREE: THE PLOT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you’ve got a good premise and characters with internal and external motivations, you need to come up with a plot. The plot of your novel is what happens to your characters. According to James Scott Bell in his book Plot and Structure, a good plot should answer these questions for the reader:   1.      [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=41&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-zine: Vol. 14: May 2008: WRITING A NOVEL PART TWO: CHARACTERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we all have a good premise in our minds, we need to think about characters. We can’t really develop a premise into a plot until we know the characters. They are the people who are going to live through this premise and we need to know them well. This may sound wrong to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepurplepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5061418&amp;post=39&amp;subd=thepurplepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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