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<title>Melinda Curtis</title>
<link>http://melindacurtis.net/</link>
<description>These are paper journal entries (taken from my daily journal and entered here).  I'm a huge music fan and tend to end each entry with a liner note about the lesson to be learned from all this.</description>
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<title>Keeping On Track...but what track?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Heard about the Blaze proposals:

Status:  rejected
Reason 1:  the plot is made up mostly of internal elements, relationships and conflicts (more like a Superromance).

I love Brenda C to death, because that is so spot on.  That's t]]></description>
<link>/index.php/melindas-blog/2010/04/28/21-keeping-on-trackbut-what-track</link>
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<title>The Tao of Mel - Writing Bookshelf</title>
<description><![CDATA[I revisited my writing tool kit last weekend.  Here are some of my favorites:

Break into Fiction, Adams Media, by Mary Buckham and Dianna Love.  Great way to develop emotional growth and romantic arcs (character and motivation).  Can ]]></description>
<link>/index.php/melindas-blog/2010/03/17/20-the-tao-of-mel-writing-bookshelf</link>
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<title>My Writing Plate is Full</title>
<description><![CDATA[How did my writing plate get so full?
I'm trying to get the opening chapters right on an urban fantasy, while simultaneously trying to carry through the emotional growth to a satisfying conclusion in the synopsis (thou shall repeat after m]]></description>
<link>/index.php/melindas-blog/2010/03/05/19-my-writing-plate-is-full</link>
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<title>A Writer's Motivation</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here are 10 things I do to kick up my motivation for the writing.

Beauty. Do you ever stop, if only for a moment, and look at the world around you?  How blue the sky is?  How beautiful the snow dusted trees look?  How bright the flowe]]></description>
<link>/index.php/melindas-blog/2010/02/17/18-a-writers-motivation</link>
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<title>The Donald</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's been a week since I sat in awe of Donald Maass, super agent, at his workshop.  I learned several things about him:  he's been an editor of romance, a writer of romance, a writer of Nancy Drew mysteries and an agent.  It probably als]]></description>
<link>/index.php/melindas-blog/2010/01/30/16-the-donald</link>
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