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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better—#11 Make Good Sentences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Dillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Kingsolver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhythm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sentences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shapely sentences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Poisonwood Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard tells of the well-known writer who got collared by a university student who asked, “Do you think I could be a writer?” “Well,” the writer said, “I don’t know. . . .  Do you &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/05/20-ways-to-make-it-better-11-make-good-sentences/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better— #10 Active vs. Passive Voice</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/04/20-ways-to-make-it-better-10-active-vs-passive-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["was" police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[About. com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adverbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grammar Girl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[verbs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Way #10 — Use Active, Not Passive Voice How easy to use was. How that word just slides off our fingertips and onto the page as we merrily write along. Maybe the word actually resides in our fingers and shows &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/04/20-ways-to-make-it-better-10-active-vs-passive-voice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better # 17—Beginnings &amp; Endings</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/02/20-ways-to-make-it-better-17-beginnings-endings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beginnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beloved]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Irving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Milo Kundera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tortilla Flat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Oleander]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ # 17. Beginnings – Endings Beginnings Begin at the beginning, not before. What does that mean? Write as much of the back story as you need to get going, but then whack it off and start where things get interesting. &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/02/20-ways-to-make-it-better-17-beginnings-endings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better&#8211;Way #9</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bountiful Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuckograhy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cliches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.L. Doctorow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fresh images]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Hillewaert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Epel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[out of focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PoemCrazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Wooldridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Observation Deck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visual images]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[#9 &#8212; Create Fresh Images Clichés happen. It’s our brain’s way of being efficient. Ask for a nice day and your brain will serve up sunshine, blue sky, maybe some trees, a few flowers. Ask for a policeman, a parade, &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-9/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better &#8212; Way # 8</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Writer's Book of Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cliche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czeslaw Milosz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[figurative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[word packages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[#8—Embrace language Language is more than words. It is music and rhythm, sound, and rhyme, texture and layers. Language is art and graffiti, attitude and place, geography and history. Language is family and what you heard at the kitchen table &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better &#8212; Way #7</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemingway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[names of things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader's interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[specifics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be specific. Write in concrete, not in clouds. Last post we talked about going deeper and suggested one way to go deeper is to be specific. When you write, write the names of things. Rather than bird, write sparrow or &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2012/01/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better&#8211;Way #6</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/12/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[details]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plot point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensory inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[specifics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Into the Deep Sometimes a writer skims on top of a subject. Or is too nice. Maybe the writing is glib and clever and even funny, or the story moves along from plot point to plot point, but the piece &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/12/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better &#8212; Way #5</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/12/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Ozick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discover a truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stay in the room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sue Grafton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing voice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take Risks Writing means taking risks. If you’re not willing to take the risks, chances are your writing will be bland and boring – even to yourself. It takes courage to take such risks. Risk-taking can lead to self-discovery. Taking &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/12/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better &#8212; Way #4</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/11/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["truth bumps"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Dubus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tell our secrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tell the truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[#4. Tell The Truth Every time you write you have an opportunity to tell the truth and sometimes it’s only through writing that you can know the truth. This may be one of the reasons we write in the first &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/11/20-ways-to-make-it-better-way-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>20 Ways to Make It Better (#3)</title>
		<link>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/11/20-ways-to-make-it-better-3/</link>
		<comments>http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/11/20-ways-to-make-it-better-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free-writes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intuition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naming the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Now Write!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinking About Memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What If?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing group]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[#3 Get It Down The most important thing about writing? Writing. Getting the words on the page. How to do it? Keep your pen moving. Or your fingers dancing on those keys. Never mind if you don’t know where you’re &#8230; <a href="http://judyreeveswriter.com/2011/11/20-ways-to-make-it-better-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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