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		<title>Why Character Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Edward Lee's The Golem. This is my first encounter with any of Edward Lee's work. I believe every author should have two chances, so Ed Lee has one left. To me, the book read like a first draft, but I'll get to that. We don't see the golem used much in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/07/05/why-character-matters/</link>
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		<title>Manuscript Templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of being a professional writer is ensuring your submissions meet format guidelines. William Shunn developed a set of format guidelines, originally published in December 1998 edition of Writers Write: The Internet Writing Journal. He also provides a set of templates on his site, but unfortunately they are only for WordPerfect. I use OpenOffice. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/06/09/manuscript-templates/</link>
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		<title>One Helluva Ghost Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children--for the second time.  I read it back in February and decided that to do it any justice, I needed to set it aside and reread it.  It's not an overly complex book, but I'm not used to the Southern style.  The last book I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/04/27/one-helluva-ghost-story/</link>
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		<title>Another Round of How-To, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the last of a three-part journal on How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy &#38; Science Fiction, Edited by J. N. Williamson, a collection of How-To articles by some of the best horror writers, circa 1987.  Part one covered chapters 1-8; part two covered chapters 9-18. The advice found in these final chapters still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/04/07/another-round-of-how-to-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Another Round of How-To, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part two of a three-part journal on How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy &#38; Science Fiction, Edited by J. N. Williamson, a collection of How-To articles by some of the best horror writers, circa 1987.  Part one covered chapters 1-8. In my first post, I mentioned how strikingly similar the advice is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/03/23/another-round-of-how-to-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Another Round of How-To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of three posts on How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy &#38; Science Fiction, Edited by J. N. Williamson.  The book is a collection of How-To articles by some of the best horror writers, circa 1987. Late last year I did a series of posts on On Writing Horror, another collection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/03/01/another-round-of-how-to/</link>
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		<title>Measuring Quality &#8211; Words or Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a couple weeks into my second term in Seton Hill's MA WPF program.  My thesis is a marketable horror novel, targeted at 350 pages.  My personal goal is to complete the 1st draft by the end of this term, and spend the rest of my program editing and revision.  Or rewriting if my mentors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/01/31/measuring-quality-words-or-pages/</link>
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		<title>Back to work&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from residency orientation @ Seton Hill.  It's nice to be back, even if it meant driving 4 hours through snow.  I had a great break, had a couple of good reads while I was off.  First was John Scalzi's Old Man's War, a very entertaining science fiction book.  It's not my typical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2010/01/08/back-to-work/</link>
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		<title>A Bit of a Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been on break from school since beginning of November, so I took the opportunity to brush up on mechanics.  Specifically, I took a much-needed browse through the old Elements of Style.  Good little book.  But, I wanted more.  So, I found a more contemporary take on style, Sin and Syntax, by Constance Hale.  It's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidlday.com/2009/12/01/a-bit-of-a-break/</link>
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		<title>Down to Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the end, writing is like any other endeavor.  Sure, there is a significant and compelling creative aspect to it, almost mystical at times.  It doesn't just happen, though.  The magic comes through sweat and rigor.  King lays this out in his final section of On Writing. His opinion is that there are 4 classes [...]]]></description>
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