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	<title>Becoming A Fiction Writer</title>
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		<title>Getting creatively divergent with amigurumi</title>
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It&#8217;s quite a long time ago that I blogged about the benefits of a fiction writer getting creatively divergent (or doing &#8220;creativity cross-training&#8220;, which sounds a bit too athletic!). But just because I haven&#8217;t blogged about it, doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t done it.
As I see it, getting your right and left brain working together in ways other than writing has got to be a good change and (hopefully) benefit your writing. For some reason the craft of amigurumi has popped up on the internet in front of me quite a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/03/getting-creatively-divergent-with-amigurumi/</link>
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		<title>Sentimental fiction: My childhood favourites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was definitely a voracious reader as a kid, my parents would vouch for that. (And my husband would confirm that it&#8217;s no different today). When I was a child, I remember reading at night in bed before I went to sleep, and I even had a notebook where I&#8217;d write down words I didn&#8217;t know, and my parents would explain the definitions to me when they came to turn out the light.
Thanks to the influence (and book collection) of my mother, I was a mad keen fan of Enid ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/03/sentimental-fiction-my-childhood-favourites/</link>
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		<title>February&#8217;s book of the month and a February goal update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First up, the goal-related news &#8230; I actually didn&#8217;t get much writing at all done in February. Even the posts you saw were mostly written in January, and I&#8217;m afraid that&#8217;ll be the case for the next couple of months, as I&#8217;ve been struck with pregnancy-carpal-tunnel &#8211; basically the same as regular carpal tunnel, but a whole lot better, because after I give birth to this kid in April my wrists and hands should return to normal and I&#8217;ll be typing away with the best of &#8216;em. So I&#8217;ve had ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/03/februarys-book-of-the-month-and-a-february-goal-update/</link>
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		<title>I finished an Irvine Welsh book, but the dialogue still bugs me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are great writers, and then there are great writers who use annoying local dialect in their dialogue which makes it really annoying to read. If you&#8217;re a loyal reader with a good memory you&#8217;ll know that a while ago I abandoned Irvine Welsh novels because of his (as perceived by me) overuse of Scottish dialect that was difficult to understand. (He&#8217;s the guy who wrote Trainspotting, among others, if you&#8217;re not sure.)
So, here&#8217;s the thing: Irvine Welsh, who I do think is a great writer apart from this flaw, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/i-finished-an-irvine-welsh-book-but-the-dialogue-still-bugs-me/</link>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; keyboard syndrome: Where&#8217;s the &#8220;e&#8221;?</title>
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My other half refuses to sit down at my computer any more because he can&#8217;t type using my keyboard. I guess, looking at this picture, I can understand why. I type so much, and probably a little too fast and too hard, with the tough fingernails I inherited from my mother, and the letters have worn off many of the keys. And this is the second keyboard I&#8217;ve been through in about a year.
I don&#8217;t usually notice because 95% of the time I touch type, but there are odd occasions ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/writers-keyboard-syndrome-wheres-the-e/</link>
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		<title>Fellow writers, do you get bored? I don&#8217;t &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you bored yet?&#8221; This is the most common question that people have been asking me since I&#8217;ve become a bit housebound thanks to some pregnancy dramas. At first, I was a little surprised to be asked. Then it kept happening, and I realised that obviously a lot of people think they would be bored if they were in my situation, &#8220;stuck&#8221; at home.
Of course, I&#8217;d much prefer to be still at work teaching, and also able to get out of the house a bit more (although I don&#8217;t miss ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/fellow-writers-do-you-get-bored-i-dont/</link>
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		<title>Writing in the pool and finding another &#8220;Shower Thinker&#8221;</title>
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You might remember how my mother solved my &#8220;shower thinking&#8221; problem by finding me some waterproof notebooks which I can use to jot down ideas that come to me while I am in the shower. Well, there are now two more things I have to tell you today about waterproof notebooks. Who would&#8217;ve thought it was such an important topic?
First off, I&#8217;ve discovered yet another great use for waterproof notebooks for fiction writers. Or for any writers, I guess. Thanks to some lovely pregnancy-related dramas (pelvis problems and leg swelling, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/writing-in-swimming-pool-fellow-shower-thinker/</link>
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		<title>My reading habits: Where are your books now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess that most writers out there are avid readers. I know I certainly am, and that doesn&#8217;t just mean I read a lot, but that I acquire books like some people acquire bread and milk, and then I read these books in various rooms of the house at various times and basically make a widespread book mess. And yes, it drives my husband quite mad.
I thought it&#8217;d be interesting to do a quick survey of the house and find out where my current reads are. Of course, there are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/my-reading-habits-where-are-your-books-now/</link>
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		<title>Books on the beach, what a great combination</title>
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Books are not usually the stars of cool photos, but this is really an exception. Recently at Bondi Beach in Sydney (oh, how I wish I could have popped over to Sydney and seen this in person!) a furniture store (one I like, but nonetheless won&#8217;t plug on my blog) set up this display of bookshelves and organised a &#8220;book swap&#8221;. You could bring your own books and swap them for ones on the shelf, or just take a book and give a gold coin donation, with proceeds going to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/books-on-the-beach-what-a-great-combination/</link>
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		<title>Kazuo Ishiguro says I&#8217;m about to enter my peak as a novelist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to an interview with one of my favourite authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, recently, I heard him say something fantastic:
What I want to emphasise is that for novelists &#8230; I think that your peak is likely to be somewhere in your mid 30s to your mid 40s. A few years after footballers!
But then the pressure came on &#8230;
You have to really go for it when you&#8217;re in your 30s, and you have to ignore older people who patronise you as though you&#8217;re some kind of little chick that&#8217;s about to hatch. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://becomingafictionwriter.com/2010/02/kazuo-ishiguro-says-im-about-to-enter-my-peak-as-a-novelist/</link>
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