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		<title>Watch your language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother used to call me a slut. One step into my bedroom and she’d cast her eyes despairingly to the ceiling and berate me for my sluttish behaviour. It wasn’t until we’d lived in Australia for several years that things changed and she would comment only on the untidiness of my room. This was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use and misuse of language – get amongst it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more observant among* you may have noticed it&#8217;s been a while** since I last updated this blog. This is in part due to the demands of Real Life, which recently included attendance at Conflux and involvement in the National Editors Conference. Each of these were opportunities to meet fellow editors and writers, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genre-ly speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of chat about genre on the interwebs lately; in particular, people have been discussing the question of whether one should write according to genre – and according to what sells both to readers and to publishers in the first place – or whether it’s okay to write what you want and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On how hiring an editor is just like hiring any tradesperson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to go about hiring a freelance editor to help you with your fledgling manuscript or document. You can trawl through the Yellow Pages, check Google, contact your local Writers&#8217; Centres or dip into the directories of numerous Societies of Editors. Just as there are hundreds of tradespeople to choose from, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Australian Blogs 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 04:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first started this blog back in January this year after finding myself repeating the same comments about wording and structure in numerous manuscript assessments and reports. At the same time, I realised I was getting identical editing questions from nervous authors who were understandably worried about handing over their precious manuscripts for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you want to be an editor, use your imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mandy Brett wrote a fabulous article recently about editing and the invisibility thereof (Stet by Me: Thoughts on Editing Fiction) It got me thinking as to how editors view the art and act of editing and, further, how others view editing as a profession. I don’t mean in terms of its value, so much as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ready for an editor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day someone asked what I was working on and then expressed surprise when I said it was the same manuscript they had asked about previously. They felt I had been working on it for a “long time” – in fact this particular tome was on a very tight deadline and needed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diana Wynne Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.bothersomewords.com/blog/2011/03/27/diana-wynne-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a sad and reflective time in the BW hovel today, with news that the great Diana Wynne Jones has passed away. It’s no exaggeration to say that this author changed my life, though I never met her. Certainly she changed my reading habits, for though, as a child, I had already discovered fantasy through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to build worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.bothersomewords.com/blog/2011/03/22/how-to-build-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to setting the scene in a book, everyone will tell you the worldbuilding is important. This is true no matter what sort of book you’re writing or which genre you&#8217;re writing in. If you’re writing a fantasy novel, of course people tend to focus more closely on the worldbuilding since it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The stigma of working in fantasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of authors talk about the stigma attached to being a genre writer. No matter how successful a fantasy writer may be, it’s likely they have at least once been scorned by people comparing their work to that of “literary” authors. Readers too may have aspersions cast upon them if their reading choice is [...]]]></description>
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