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		<title>The politics of silence</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2013/02/the-politics-of-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hannah's Voice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting how different readers react to the characters and events in Hannah&#8217;s Voice – either praising or being offended by how certain characters are portrayed. Some think I&#8217;ve written a Christian novel, or a novel that ridicules people of faith, or a conservative novel, or a novel that makes fun of people with conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are verbs so tense?</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2013/01/why-are-verbs-so-tense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard that mixing &#8220;ing&#8221; and &#8220;ed&#8221; verbs in a sentence is wrong. But isn&#8217;t this is the grammatically correct way to describe when a second action takes place within the time frame of another past tense action? – Ben H. Hugh What verb forms should you use when a sentence contains two actions? It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I hire an agent or self-publish?</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/12/should-i-hire-an-agent-or-self-publish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which way should I publish? Should I try for an agent and a contract from a major publisher, or self-publish? I hear with self-publishing, I can get my book out to the public in a lot less time and I get to keep a larger percentage of the profits rather than share it with a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cart? Horse? When to hire an editor</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/11/cart-horse-when-to-hire-an-editor/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/11/cart-horse-when-to-hire-an-editor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some unsolicited advice from an editor to writers. I&#8217;ll start with a message I receive way too frequently (a composite paraphrase of multiple emails here): &#8220;Dear Robb, I found your website (or were referred to you). I have spent the past 6 months (or year, or 5 years) writing my first novel. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using flashbacks</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/06/using-flashbacks/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/06/using-flashbacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wrestling with flashbacks. Do they confuse the reader (as they often do in films)? Do they interrupt the narrative flow and annoy the reader? Do writers only do it because it can be fun? Is it best to avoid flashbacks? —Anonymous I like flashbacks—as a reader—if done well. But there are lots of ways [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Desert short story trilogy released</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/06/sonorandreams/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/06/sonorandreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desert short story trilogy released:

The Sonoran Desert in the American Southwest is a place of extremes and contrasts, of beauty and death, of independent spirits and lost souls, of fresh starts and exiles. "SONORAN DREAMS: Three Short Stories from Exile," published June 2012 by fiction writer Robb Grindstaff of Phoenix, Arizona, is a collection of stories in three different genres all set in the Arizona desert, each featuring characters in exile of one form or another. Published in all e-book formats, "SONORAN DREAMS" is now available on Amazon and Smashwords.

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		<title>Narrative arc: What the heck is it?</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/narrative-arc-what-the-heck-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/narrative-arc-what-the-heck-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narrative arc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative arc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pace]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robbgrindstaff.com/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had an agent, editor, or a reviewer say something like this about your novel? “This story has a weak (or non-existent) narrative arc.” “While the characters are strong, the narrative arc did not maintain my interest.” “The writing is solid, but the narrative arc is unclear and inconsistent.” I have. And on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>A POV question</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/a-pov-question/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/a-pov-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read the POV article on your site and I have a question. I am currently writing a novel in the first person POV. There is a conversation between my main character&#8217;s sister and his girlfriend toward the end of the story. I NEED the reader to know this information before my main character does. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Never use an adverb!</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/never-use-an-adverb/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2012/03/never-use-an-adverb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://robbgrindstaff.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been writing fiction for more than a day, and have ever read a writers’ magazine, visited a writing website or blog, attended a writing critique group, or taken a college course in creative writing, you’ve probably heard this rule. Here’s a good piece of advice: Anytime someone says ‘Always do this’ or ‘Never [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recycled stories</title>
		<link>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2011/10/recycled/</link>
		<comments>http://robbgrindstaff.com/2011/10/recycled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[copyrights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an early reader that was published in 2003 and is still in print. I didn&#8217;t sell all rights to it. Can I now resubmit it as a short story to a magazine? - Elizabeth, Michigan Thanks for the question. The answer is: it depends.   It depends on the new publication&#8217;s acceptance policy and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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