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	<subtitle>Writing Tips for Fiction Writers</subtitle>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Special - Jim Butcher and Shannon Butcher Interview</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2007-08-18T23:54:20Z</updated>
		<published>2007-08-18T22:57:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<DIV></DIV><BR><BR>This is a special edition of the FictionRight.com podcast.&nbsp; We interview Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files series, and Shannon Butcher.&nbsp; Please provide any comments to <A href="mailto:feedback@fictionright.com">feedback@fictionright.com</A><BR><BR>Jim Butcher's website is <A href="http://www.jim-butcher.com/">http://www.jim-butcher.com/</A><BR><BR>Shannon Butcher's website is <A href="http://www.shannonkbutcher.com/">http://www.shannonkbutcher.com/</A><BR><BR>And a special Thank You to the Pike's Peak Writers Workshop for allowing us to interview the Butcher's.&nbsp; <A href="http://www.ppwc.net/">http://www.ppwc.net/</A>]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter Six - Dialog 7/31/07</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2007-07-31T22:23:05Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-31T22:13:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<DIV></DIV>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss dialog and how to make it better.<BR><BR>Writing exercise: Write a scene that takes place around a dinner table where a common problem or a person is the object of discussion.<BR><BR>]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Special - Connie Willis Interview</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2007-02-24T01:24:51Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-24T01:22:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca Lickiss interview Connie Willis while attending CoSine in Colorado Springs, January 2007.  Connie provides information and advice for writers of all levels.]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter Five - The Minutia 2/20/07</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2007-02-21T06:57:06Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-20T23:50:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca Lickiss answer questions they've received about manuscript format and submission.

Writing exercise:  Take the story that was written for the last exercise, format it properly, and submit it to an editor.  If it is rejected, immediatly submit it to another editor.]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter Four - The Plot Thickens 12/04/06</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2006-12-05T07:00:07Z</updated>
		<published>2006-12-04T23:55:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss what plot is and how it is used to start a story, make a story interesting, and provide a satisfying ending.

Writing exercise:  Take the character, setting, and idea created in previous exercises and use them to write a short story.]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter Three - Ideas 11/04/06</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2006-11-05T05:35:02Z</updated>
		<published>2006-11-04T22:29:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss where writers get their ideas, and how to generate ideas for problems, stories, characters, and settings if the idea well is dry.

Writing exercise:  write down one or more problems that would be suitable for a short story.]]></content>
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		<title>Fictionright.com Special - Reeves-Stevens and Sawyer Interview</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2007-08-18T23:06:39Z</updated>
		<published>2006-11-03T23:44:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<BR><BR>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss interview Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Robert J. Sawyer while attending MileHiCon in Denver, October 2006. The three provide information and advice for writers of all levels.<BR><BR><BR>Robert J. Sawyer's web site is <A href="http://www.sfwriter.com/">http://www.sfwriter.com/</A><BR><BR>Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens web site is <A href="http://www.reeves-stevens.com/">http://www.reeves-stevens.com/</A>]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter Two - Characters 10/14/06</title>
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			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2006-10-15T04:00:29Z</updated>
		<published>2006-10-14T20:47:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss the importance of well defined characters to a story, and how to create them.

Writing Exercise:  Create a character, define their name, gender, age, physical attributes, any quirks, their past, and their future/hopes and dreams.]]></content>
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		<title>FictionRight.com Chapter One - Descriptions 09/25/06</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Alan and Rebecca Lickiss</name>
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		<updated>2006-09-28T06:33:59Z</updated>
		<published>2006-09-25T22:42:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Alan and Rebecca discuss the importance of the use of multiple senses in providing descriptions in writing.

Writing Exercise:  Go to a place and write a paragraph describing the place using only one sense.  Do this twice more with two other senses.  Then write a fourth paragraph, pulling from the first three, to create a multi-sense description of the location.]]></content>
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