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		<title>Baffled by Writing Conventions and/or Tricks of the Writing Trade?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What areas of writing would you like insight into?  What stops you in your tracks when you&#8217;re writing like a house afire?  What elements of fiction writing would you like clarified? This is the place for some answers.  Please list your questions in the comments of this post.  Then I will select one (or more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Guys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I just wanna say thanks to the top commenters on my site in 2011. In the number one spot was Nancy Hatch at 40 comments. Stephanie Ciofalo (Kally or Kallysti) ran a close second at 38. Haley Whitehall, our resident civil war fiction writer, followed at 19. Finally, bringing up the rear were Dorky Deb at 17&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1120&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/100-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beautiful words]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this list from a suggestion by StumbleUpon.  The spotter was a fellow named Shonara, and his source is credited at the end. It&#8217;s a lovely list.  Got any favorite words you&#8217;d like to add? Ailurophile A cat-lover.   Assemblage A gathering.   Becoming Attractive.   Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.   Brood To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1098&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everyone, and thanks for dropping by and viewing my offerings.  I wouldn&#8217;t have this review if it wasn&#8217;t for all of you.  Here&#8217;s to a great 2012 for all of us.  Woohoo! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.   Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/o-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  O Christmas Tree! (O Tannenbaum!) O Christmas Tree is a traditional German Carol. The author of the lyrics is unknown, as is the composer of the music. The tradition of bringing a tree inside and decorating it with candy, baubles and bells was started in the nineteenth century and is immortalized in the carol O [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1079&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Whistle without Spitting</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/how-to-whistle-without-spitting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, nay decades, I had wanted to be able to whistle like the boys did, using just two fingers held in some mysterious fashion to the mouth.  I tried&#8230;oh how I tried!&#8230;but all I managed to do was spit down one arm to the elbow.  In soggy despair, I gave up.  Then along came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1060&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Longest Wait</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/the-longest-wait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-writing posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a poem I wrote 15 years ago during a time of poetry-writing in my life.  Some of them were not bad, some of them were not so good, but this was one of the fun ones   Just to explain one verse about being sick&#8230;when I was small I was sick with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yayy, another award!</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/yayy-another-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so pleased to have received another award, this time from my good and brave friend, Dorky Deb.  She is actually anything but dorky.  Instead, she is a mother and wife, full of good cheer, dealing with life despite the odds stacked against her.  She is also a wonderful photographer. This version of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon a Mirror Dreary</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/once-upon-a-mirror-dreary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally made it under the wire.  This is an entry for Ken Broad&#8217;s Fictional Campfire blog.  His challenge was to write a story about an antique object that was fit for Halloween.  He requested that we try to keep it under 500 words.  I&#8217;m sorry that I didn&#8217;t accomplish that, but Priscilla told me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=997&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witchcanery&#8230;now LIVE on Kindle</title>
		<link>http://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/witchcanery-now-live-on-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Bell Kirchman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup, it&#8217;s true.  My first novel, Witchcanery, is now available on Amazon&#8217;s Kindle as an e-book.  As I understand it, you need a Kindle reader (or similar device) in order to read it.  The good news is if you don&#8217;t have a Kindle reader you can download one from Amazon.com for free.  Or you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fantasyfic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18388209&amp;post=990&amp;subd=fantasyfic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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