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		<title>What Amanda read in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s the beginning of 2011, my fiction writing efforts have taken a big dive, and this blog has been terribly neglected &#8211; but I will get back on the horse! I&#8217;m writing a lot more at the moment (more on that to come but look at 750words.com if you need help too) and have, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A reading slump with a writing stint on the horizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something happened to me this past month that has not happened to me for a very long time and perhaps even ever. I just wasn&#8217;t into reading. As you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m usually a pretty prolific reader (considering I don&#8217;t get much free time between the small boy and work and the rest of life). At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/06/a-reading-slump-with-a-writing-stint-on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<title>Do I hate the sound of my own voice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, voice. Voice is this slippery elusive weird thing that writers need to be good at. You might recall that I recently summarised my experience at this year&#8217;s Perth Writers Festival and concluded above all other points that developing a voice was so essential to fiction writing. In yet another &#8220;the universe throws its stuff at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/05/do-i-hate-the-sound-of-my-own-voice/</link>
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		<title>Rejection slips and putting your writing out there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how sometimes when you need to learn (or often, re-learn) something, it just pops up everywhere? In the last few days various Twitter links and blog posts and even random opening of books here at my desk have talked about rejection, and how writers who have a long list of rejections should actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/05/rejection-slips-and-putting-your-writing-out-there/</link>
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		<title>April 2011 reading list, and how I read up a storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First up, the quick answer to how I&#8217;ve been getting so much reading done lately: I&#8217;ve been doing a lot less writing. Sad but true, perhaps. A fellow new-ish mother commented last month that she couldn&#8217;t understand how I&#8217;d had time to read four books in a month &#8211; well, this month I&#8217;ve scarily doubled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/05/april-2011-reading-list-and-how-i-read-up-a-storm/</link>
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		<title>Two posts writers must read (especially Aussie or female ones!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll clear the air straight out and admit I haven&#8217;t been writing much fiction recently. But I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading, and a lot of paid non-fiction writing, and a heap of Facebooking and Twittering and blogging both paid and unpaid. And the latter led me to these two super-fantastic pieces of the internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/04/two-posts-writers-must-read-especially-aussie-or-female-ones/</link>
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		<title>March reading list and a Becoming A Fiction Writer update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hisashiburi,&#8221; as they say in Japan, &#8220;long time no see!&#8221; Let&#8217;s start with my reading list for the month just gone &#8230; during March I managed to read just four books: Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris of Chocolat fame, though it&#8217;s best not to think about that, because the two books couldn&#8217;t be more different &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/04/march-reading-list-and-a-becoming-a-fiction-writer-update/</link>
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		<title>Meeting your writing heroes &#8211; and speaking to them!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many writers, I can be a bit on the shy side. Now, some of you who know me personally might think I&#8217;m telling porkies, but it&#8217;s really true. If I&#8217;m teaching or training then that&#8217;s not a problem, and I&#8217;ve certainly got a lot less shy over the years, but the one thing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/03/meeting-your-writing-heroes-and-speaking-to-them/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting the idea of studying creative writing &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I mused on studying creative writing at university. I didn&#8217;t &#8211; I have to confess, I studied mathematics! &#8211; and I&#8217;ve often wondered if I should. In recent years the main reasons I haven&#8217;t have largely been cost (post-graduate study doesn&#8217;t come too cheap in Australia these days) and time. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/03/revisiting-the-idea-of-studying-creative-writing/</link>
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		<title>Tips on getting published from the Perth Writers Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the glorious Perth Writers Festival (always the literary highlight of my year!), I was very lucky this year to be able to take part in a day-long workshop: the A-Z of Getting Published. (Lucky because I had two willing babysitters!). It was chaired by Angela Meyer from the great Literary Minded blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2011/03/getting-published-tips-perth-writers-festival/</link>
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