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	<title>Diary of a Short Woman &#187; Announcements</title>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo, I&#8217;m ready for you!</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=864</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already got another novel in the works, which I&#8217;m hoping to get drafted by the end of October. So I was thinking about giving long form a little break and working on some short stories for NaNoWriMo. Today, I got the idea to do 20 stories based on the same character, each with one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Craft Focus: 20 Master Plots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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Ahhh! Is it August already? Well, good news is I&#8217;ve got my latest novel proofed and out the door. So this month, I&#8217;ll be playing catch-up with my reviews. I think I&#8217;m a bit &#8220;tone deaf&#8221; when it comes to plotting, so I&#8217;ve set my sights on identifying all 20 of the Master Plots (as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June Craft Focus: Analog Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just cracked open the July/August issue of Analog, and since it&#8217;s barely June, I&#8217;m already feeling transported into the future! This will be my first time reading this magazine (I got the subscription as a gift!), so I thought I&#8217;d review short stories and novellets from this issue to see I can narrow in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story a Day in May</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=582</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 20:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So maybe you&#8217;ve noticed, but I&#8217;m way behind on my short story wordage for the year. I&#8217;ve got six stories written, plus two that are in need of finishing. But there&#8217;s a NaNoWriMo-style challenge this month at http://storyaday.org/ that I&#8217;m hoping will get me going. At the least, I&#8217;ll churn up some good story ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hint Fiction Contest Reloaded</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=564</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Swartwood is hosting another Hint Fiction Contest with some neat prizes. 25 words or fewer. Deadline April 30th. (This post is 25 words long!)
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		<title>April Craft Focus: World Building</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=476</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, world building for novels is like eating chocolate covered awesome. I love it. Maps, floor plans, pages and pages of notes on culture, history, technology. Fun stuff, right? But what role does world building play in short stories where every word is precious? How can you establish a credible world and believable rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March Craft Focus: Character Arcs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next up, character arcs! Or lack thereof as the case may be. I&#8217;m personally a fan of characters that don&#8217;t change, because let&#8217;s face it &#8212; change is hard in real life. But we&#8217;re not writing real life, we&#8217;re writing fiction, so at some point or another we&#8217;re going to have to deal with THE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kij Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Spar&#8221; nominated for the 2009 Nebula Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Kij Johnson for her short story Spar (Clarkesworld Magazine, Oct 2009)  making it to the ballot of the 2009 Nebula Awards! See the rest of the nominees on SFWA&#8217;s Blog.
Read my review of this striking story here.
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		<title>With Good Intentions &#8211; The Play!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My short story &#8220;With Good Intentions&#8221; (first published in Necrotic Tissue) will be one of four stories to be anthologized and adapted into a play by internationally award winning playwright Roy C. Booth.
From Roy&#8217;s Blog:

Stygian Publications will be publishing a collection/anthology of four previously published horror/comedy short stories from their flagship publication, NECROTIC TISSUE, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Craft Focus: Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve got a month of blogging under my belt, I think I&#8217;m ready to cut into the meat (or meat substitute, if you like) of storytelling. This month that focus will be on how to snag readers, including slush readers, from the beginning of the story. I plan to delve into the opening [...]]]></description>
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