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		<title>Emotional Distances</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/21/emotional-distances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Character emotion is a tricky thing. Not enough and readers won’t invest; too much and you lose realism. I gave a tendency toward the former – emotionally distant characters that create emotionally distant readers (especially in long works). It’s something I’ve been looking at – been looking at for a few years now, actually.
My first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Gets Rejections</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to be one of those people who can look back and smile at rejection letters.
Rob Sabo commented on my last post: “Perspective: The first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times. I think I read somewhere that Jo Rowling is the first billionaire author.”
This got me to thinking. I love stories of failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 Ways to Think About Rejection</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/07/9-ways-to-think-about-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about rejection, considering I have so very little in my life. I don’t date (which works well with the whole being-married thing), I’m not out of work and looking for a job (I’m self-employed), I don’t compete in sports, politics or even the lottery. And yet, surveying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Writers Want vs. What Writers Control</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/31/what-writers-want-vs-what-writers-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of what the rest of the world is thinking about as 2009 slips into 2010, writer goals never seem to change. Your neighbor wants to lose weight, your cousin is determined to get out of debt, your friend will get married if it kills her. But writers? While there are many variations, most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys against Girls</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/24/boys-against-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Update: So maybe I should&#8217;ve named my blog Sometimes I Don&#8217;t Remember Right, but somehow Sometimes I Lie sounded cooler, as if there were intent. Anyway, in honor of full exposure, let me say the following story is not entirely correct, beginning with the fact that it wasn&#8217;t Charlie or even Jason there that day, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 Snowy Hints of the Erosion of Social Order</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/16/9-snowy-hints-of-the-loss-of-social-order/</link>
		<comments>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/16/9-snowy-hints-of-the-loss-of-social-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.	Stop signs, stop lights, one-way streets? Not on a snow day.
2.	When people shovel their driveways and front walkways and pile all the snow onto the sidewalk or into the street.
3.	 Double parking. We just don’t do that in Reno.
4.	All those people usually arguing for smaller government and lower taxes are suddenly yelling for more snow [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>This Time of Year</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/09/this-time-of-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know where my dad is anymore. I did for awhile, but now he’s off-grid again. And this bothers me. Despite the fact that he left my family with no warning when I was 7, despite the fact that I didn’t find him again until I was 30, despite the fact that when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticks and Carrots</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/12/02/sticks-and-carrots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I learn about writing, the harder it is. Back when I knew nothing, I would just leap to the page in joy. I created with unabashed passion. I had no critical brain, only creative.
Now, I can still tap into that creativity but it’s hard for me to stay there. My critical brain is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hierarchy of Short Story Rejections</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/11/25/hierarchy-of-short-story-rejections/</link>
		<comments>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/11/25/hierarchy-of-short-story-rejections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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Handwritten (or personal e-mail) note asking you to submit more
Personal scribble (or added line on an e-mail) on a form rejection asking you to submit more
Note with critique but not asking you to resubmit
Handwritten note (or personal e-mail) saying he/she likes your work
Personal scribble (or added line on an e-mail) on a form rejection saying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Balance, Bacon and Bad Math</title>
		<link>http://cindiegeddes.com/2009/11/19/balance-bacon-and-bad-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[randomness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Balance is not my strong suit. I’m often running late because I’m trying to finish eight things at once. I live by multiple to-do lists (that I often ignore). And I tip over a lot. Balance and I are barely on speaking terms, though we do make a show of having a relationship for birthdays [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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