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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s 500 club prompt was a bit tricky, I think, so I decided to dust off the old blog and take a crack at it. If you want to play too, you can here. The Seven The leaves fell with every breeze, fluttering down in red and gold showers, oak, ash, and elm. They made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarion Write-a-Thon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Best Little Writing Workshop in ANYWHERE Ok. So. What do Octavia Butler, Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ted Chiang, and Glen Cook have in common? Well, they’re all great speculative fiction writers, and they all went to Clarion. So did a ton of other writers you’ve probably read and enjoyed. Every summer since 1968, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration Monday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night my writer&#8217;s group The Parking Lot Confessional was living up to its name, chitchatting out in the parking lot of a coffee shop in downtown Phoenix, situated on the corner of a side street and a main thoroughfare, 7th street. As we were going over our writing goals for the next two weeks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermission is over, did you get the Junior Mints?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soliloquy Central]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, ah, can we pretend that the last sixteen months didn&#8217;t happen? No. Okay. So I had this weird glitch with WordPress, where sometimes it didn&#8217;t accept my password. Which was weird. Sometimes became often. Often became it just didn&#8217;t ever effin&#8217; work. My husband, who eats zeros and ones for breakfast, reassured me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Light Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a Friday Flash, prompt courtesy of the 500 Club. If you want to play, the prompts are here. Here’s my contributory flash for this week. RED LIGHT SPECIAL The last thing Flynn wanted to do that day was another love spell. It was cheap work, he thought, flavored with desperation. And the thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEAT MARKET</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[500 Club time! If you want to play, the prompts are here. Here&#8217;s my contributory flash for this week. MEAT MARKET The bag of groceries smashed on the ground between us. A confetti of broken eggs splattered onto the parking lot. “Get your hands off me.” I said, jerking out of her grasp. I stooped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLICK CLICK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slightly tardy 500 Club Entry. Of course, while it&#8217;s true the prompts do go up on Thursdays, it&#8217;s never too late to play. CLICK CLICK Jenny never liked the color red. Red smelled like squashed tomatoes, like the breakfasts the College of London cafeteria served. Poached eggs in slimy clear-white umbilical blobs, cold toast, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLC Interviews: Sam Sykes, author of Tome of the Undergates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy McLane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everybody! Today is most auspicious! Wanna know why? Because today we have our very first guest post up at PLC. Sam Sykes, author of  fantasy novel Tome of the Undergates sat down and talked writing with us. Tome of the Undergates will be released in several countries (including the US, of course) next Tuesday. [...]]]></description>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[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>
				<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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