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		<title>Kitten or Lion?  A Character Development Technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a great photo affixed to my hairdresser&#8217;s license today.  The picture showed an orange tabby kitten looking in a mirror that reflected back the face of a lion.  It occurred to me that this could be a great question to ask when you are flushing out a character for a novel.  For example, how does your protagonist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=894&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have some good news to report. Another of my children&#8217;s stories has just been published in Stories for Children Magazine. &#8220;Sock Monster,&#8221; a humorous mystery for young readers, appears in their Holiday (Dec/Jan) 2011 issue. You can find it here at:  http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org/InThisIssue.aspx - Cheryl Spanos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=883&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Her Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/her-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 25th was my mother&#8217;s birthday. I wrote this poem for her after Christmas last year. I post it now in her memory. &#160; HER CHRISTMAS TREE By Cheryl Spanos   Decorating the Christmas tree for Dad I unwrap ornaments Felted angel, painted sled Ones I had made when I was young. Each a memory Mom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=875&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Character Development: Memorable Moments</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/character-development-memorable-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving to my early morning dog agility class, trying to remember why in the world I signed up for a 7:30 a.m. class, when I remembered how grateful I&#8217;d been for this jaunt just a few months ago.  To understand how unlikely gratitude might be used in the same sentence as any morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=866&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posting Stories:  Make Your Writing Public</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/posting-stories-make-your-writing-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I went to a Wattpad MeetUp in San Francisco.  Wattpad is basically a website for Young Adults and their stories.  It was started out of someone&#8217;s garage in Ontario, Canada, but the response has been fabulous.  Today, Wattpad has grown to over 1 million registered users with approximately 2 million stories to offer.   A Wattpad MeetUp is a social event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=860&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween and Halloween Costumes</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/halloween-and-halloween-costumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan McClurg Berman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Marcos Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Halloween.  I think it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s an opportunity to become something or someone you are not any other day of the year.  Either that, or I enjoy flights into fantasy. When I was a kid back in Orange, Texas during the 1950’s, I usually dressed in my dance recital costume from the previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=855&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise!  A Way to Develop Character</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/surprise-a-way-to-develop-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[character develop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experiential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our first day in Paris during a family vacation, we were hit with a number of surprises. It got me thinking that the element of surprise is a great device to develop the characters in a novel. Using my own experiences as examples, I&#8217;ve categorized them into three types: observational, experiential and thwarted expectations. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=850&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Need For SetUp</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/the-need-for-setup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a professional conference this week at a government building.  The meeting kicked off with a few building facts, including a side comment that they had been having fire drills on a daily basis.  The participants in the audience were instructed to listen to the announcement and determine whether the fire hazard related to only specific floors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=846&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retreats &#8211; Proof That Writing Does Not Have to Be Solitary</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/retreat-revisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hedgecock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My critique group organized a local writer&#8217;s retreat at Westminster Retreat Center last month. This was my second retreat experience. The first time I had joined a group where I knew no one. My productivity was fabulous, the setting was beautiful, but I did not experience a sense of comoraderie, so last fall I proposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=843&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing for the Ages</title>
		<link>http://writersotj.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/writing-for-the-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I sit on our deck enjoying a rare lightning and thunder show in the clouds to the east.  Sunset earlier displayed spectacular colors, from vivid pinks and oranges in the higher clouds to ominous grey-blue streaks below.  Our small market umbrella protects us now from the spit of raindrops shared wth us thirsty ground [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writersotj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7846701&amp;post=837&amp;subd=writersotj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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