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<description>&lt;p&gt; There's a serious lag / letdown upon the completion of a manuscript and the start of the agent hunting process....&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Query Letters, The Synopsis, and Formatting</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; I'm pretty set on a query letter now. It took a ton of drafts to condense a novel into 180...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt; I've been through three drafts of my query letter today. I don't know what the total count is, nor do...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>The Polish Edit is Finished</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; Time for celebration? After years of writing, I have a novel that I feel comfortable sending to agents and /...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>The Polish Edit</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; I haven't had much time in the past few weeks to work on the polish edit of the GIANT, but...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Agents and Publishers</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; Before I go back to the editing / writing, I'm taking a few weeks off to clear my brain. Now...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Another draft finished.  One more to go?</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; I'm working on two GIANT related items right now - one is finding and agent / publisher, the other is...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Another Draft is Finished!</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; I can feel the end of this book coming on. I finished up the new ending this afternoon. There's one...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:51:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Writing a New Ending</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; I've had the opportunity to devote a lot of time to writing as of late, and feel that if I...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Writer's Block</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt; My former understanding of writer's block came from popular media. Writer's block was something like this: a writer sits in...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:00:26 -0400</pubDate>
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