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		<title>In Your Cloak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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For this week&#8217;s 500 Club, I decided to revisit one of the scenes in my novel, The Iron Key, retelling it from one of my favorite secondary character&#8217;s point of view. If you want to take a crack at one of this week&#8217;s writing prompts, hop on over and go to. After all it&#8217;s only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stoked for September</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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The onset of September has me feeling like the monkey Steve in Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (Steve, awesomely, is voiced by everyone&#8217;s favorite magical unicorn Neal Patrick Harris).

Excited! Excited!
My Writing the Novel class with Jim Sallis is starting back up. This marks my fourth semester of re-enrollment. Why would I take the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping (for The 500 Club)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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It’s Thursday, and I&#8217;ve got a minute to play along with the 500 Club at The Parking Lot Confessional. If you like to dabble in flash fiction, you should mosey on over and play too.
Here’s my entry for today, using the first prompt. I ran a little over 500 words, but I was having too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Which I Get Harsh And Disrespectful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Fiction has become culturally irrelevant,&#8221; says Lee Seigel over at the New York Observer. I am sure he was weeping into an Hermes handkerchief as he typed. Culturally irrelevant? Really? Pretty sure the Twilight franchise is one of the only things keeping beleaguered Hollywood afloat. Pretty sure J.K. Rowling is one of only 14 women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Advocate: A Response to S.C. Green&#8217;s &#8220;For The Sake of Being Evil&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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Today S.C. Green wrote a post on PLC about humanizing one&#8217;s villains. Now, I am in complete agreement with some of the things he says- you should always know why your bad guy is doing what he&#8217;s doing. What&#8217;s his motivation? Side note- You should know the motivations of ALL your characters, major or minor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoldering Reviews: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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I first became aware of this book via a review at io9.com This review was the one that got me to the bookstore, so kudos to Annalee Newitz. The io9 review is longer and more detailed than my own, so do pop over if you want to know more about the book than what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoldering Reviews: The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas</title>
		<link>http://smolderingink.com/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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A kind friend clued me in to the fact that my commenting was broken. Should be fixed now. I&#8217;m kind of relieved, as it explains why my commenting sections have always been a desert wasteland. Durr internetting is hards! Ok, on with the show.

I just finished The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas. Blurbed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late</title>
		<link>http://smolderingink.com/blog/?p=137</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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This weeks 500 Club post is up at PLC, prompts by yours truly. Here&#8217;s the rest of my entry below. 
&#8220;So, what happens if they don&#8217;t get you to the church on time?&#8221;
I squinted up at the cleavage in my face. A reporter bent over me, her face schooled into an expression of concern. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LepreCon 36: Writing, Rayguns, GRRM, and Charles Vess</title>
		<link>http://smolderingink.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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LepreCon is a really small, local con. I&#8217;ve never been this until this year, but the Writer GOH was George R. R. Martin, and the artist GOH was Charles Vess, so really, how could I not go? I missed all of Friday&#8217;s programming, which sucked because it was the heartiest schedule. Saturday&#8217;s scheduling was rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing along with the 500 Club</title>
		<link>http://smolderingink.com/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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I am playing this week&#8217;s 500 Club over at The Parking Lot Confessional. Here&#8217;s my entry. You can play too, just read today&#8217;s blog entry and respond to the prompt.

First Shy broke a window. Then I broke a window. He used his fist, wrapped in his t-shirt. I threw a rock. Crows flew, scolding, at [...]]]></description>
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