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		<title>Marvin the Manic Meadow Lark or When to give up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephanieberget</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, we attract the loony Meadow Larks. The sane ones go someplace else to live. For the last few years, we had a female who nested in the rain gutter by our front door. She wasn’t happy when people came in and out that door. Each year, her protests became more aggressive until [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18935388&#038;post=6214&#038;subd=gemstatewriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, Why, and How of Line Edits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Line edits have dominated my writing time of late. What are Line Edits?  These are the sentence-level edits &#8212; trimming and rearranging words without losing content, clarity, or voice. Why Line Edits?  I aim for what I&#8217;ve heard termed &#8220;window pane prose&#8221; &#8212; clean prose that doesn&#8217;t draw attention to itself, but displays the story [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18935388&#038;post=6204&#038;subd=gemstatewriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Mapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I get a pedi, I want a neutral color.  I like to say that I am boring.  I have had enough drama in my life.  I seek boring.  I appreciate boring.  I embrace boring. That’s my problem…as a writer. In real life, it’s okay to live a boring life.  Do you know why?  It’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18935388&#038;post=6199&#038;subd=gemstatewriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kind of Over It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not a trendy gal. In fact, I have been known to run the opposite direction in order to avoid a trend. As a reader and a writer, I don’t pay much attention to trends either. I read for the stories and the characters, and if the main character is a ghost or a wizard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18935388&#038;post=6191&#038;subd=gemstatewriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Location, Location, Location</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Keim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real estate agents have a mantra – Location, location, location! And they’re right. Location can mean the difference between a successful choice or one that doesn’t quite work out the way you’d thought. Earlier this spring, a mourning dove built a nest in a pot of pansies hanging over part of our patio. I wish [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemstatewriters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18935388&#038;post=6182&#038;subd=gemstatewriters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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