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		<title>Knowing the Formula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing advice will often tell you that you have to know the formula in order to break it. Nothing makes that rule clearer than comedy does. 
As I mentioned last Thursday on National Grammar Day, without an appreciation for the rules of Grammar, we wouldn&#8217;t have the basic framework to understand why LOLcats and Oddly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Invisibly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question I hear frequently from new writers is, &#8220;How do I know if my writing is good enough to try to get it published?&#8221; When you&#8217;re so close to your own work, it&#8217;s hard to have the distance to evaluate your writing and determine whether you&#8217;re really ready.
Writing should be invisible. You&#8217;ve probably heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/03/08/writing-invisibly/</link>
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		<title>March Forth for Grammar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day is Grammar Day around here, but today is special. Today is National Grammar Day. 
We learn to hate in school, and then we learn to take it for granted out in the everyday world, but if ever there were a quiet, unsung hero that deserved a made-up holiday, grammar would be it. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/03/04/grammar/</link>
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		<title>Phrasing a First Impression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re submitting a query to an agent or a publisher, you already know that making a good first impression is key. You already know to address the query to the person you&#8217;re mailing, if you know their identity, and to leave things neutral but business-polite if you don&#8217;t. 
A &#8220;Dear Submissions Editor&#8221; will make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/03/01/phrasing/</link>
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		<title>Five Quick Tips for Writing Better Dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Real people speaking in real conversations, especially in one-on-one situations, don&#8217;t use the name of the person they&#8217;re speaking to very often. They don&#8217;t need to. They might use them sparingly for emphasis, but they don&#8217;t do it in every sentence &#8212; they don&#8217;t need to. Be careful not to overuse names in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/25/dialogue/</link>
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		<title>Solomon&#8217;s Grave on the Bram Stoker Final Ballot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOLOMON&#8217;S GRAVE by Dan Keohane (Dragon Moon Press) is a finalist for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. It was a pleasure to work with Dan on the book, and Dragon Moon and I wish him the best of luck.
Congrats, Dan!
A couple other notes: 
Erik Buchanan shares his experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/22/solomons/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Said&#8221; Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the most common &#8216;mistake&#8217; that you see writers make when attributing dialogue?
The biggest challenge with written dialogue as compared to spoken dialogue is this: When you (as a reader) can&#8217;t hear the words for yourself, you have no way to know who&#8217;s speaking, or how they&#8217;re speaking. 
It&#8217;s easy (as a writer) to convey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/18/said/</link>
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		<title>Your Five Minutes Start&#8230; Now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the wonderful Laurie McLean and the rest of the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency, I had the fortune to spend my weekend at the San Francisco Writers Conference as an independent editor. For two days, my job was to advise writers in one-on-one sessions. 
The catch? The sessions were only five minutes long. 
Sign-up sheets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/15/five-min/</link>
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		<title>Reflections in the Stacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in a cozy chair in a bookstore down the street from where I live, as I&#8217;m writing this. It&#8217;s my first attempt to blog from my phone and we&#8217;ll see how it goes.
Walking in, I was struck pretty quickly by just how long it&#8217;s been since I wandered into a real, physical bookstore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/11/reflections/</link>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Formatting Your Electronic Submission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re sending a manuscript file electronically, there are some formatting decisions you have to make.
Some of the advice on formatting is fairly standard and easy to find. Most editors, publishers or agents will tell you to double-space between lines and single-space after a period, some will tell you what text font or size they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/08/formatting/</link>
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