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		<title>Turning Your Anecdote into a Short Story:  Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1, I explained writer Shirley Jackson’s views about important issues writers should address when converting a real-life anecdote to fiction. The sample anecdote she used—which I refer to in this post—is found in Part 1. I once wrote a short story, based on a real event when I worked at a day centre [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1283430&#038;post=2810&#038;subd=writingcompanion&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Your Anecdote into a Short Story: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing help & technique]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating fiction based on real life events presents some challenges. So I was excited to discover an old essay on this topic, by one of America&#8217;s famed short story writers, Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). Jackson identifies issues worth thinking about when you are turning a real-life anecdote into a short story.   Where to get story [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1283430&#038;post=2779&#038;subd=writingcompanion&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wild About The Alternating Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing help & technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Strayed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I start descending Perry&#8217;s Lookdown, a popular trail in the upper Blue Mountains. I veer off on a side track to reach the cliff edge and perch on a large grey rock, where I can admire  the panoramic view.  On the other side of the wide valley below me, sandstone cliffs are shrugging off morning [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1283430&#038;post=2596&#038;subd=writingcompanion&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Possum,Goodbye Writing? Making Writing Dates</title>
		<link>http://writingcompanion.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/writing-interruption-habit-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to  dedicate a big swath of  the day to working on my current writing project. The hours stretched before me, enticingly empty. Then the possum  got stuck in our chimney. Writing was replaced by a rescue attempt,  involving  ladder, long rope, and the partial dismantling of our slow combustion stove. Web accounts [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1283430&#038;post=2660&#038;subd=writingcompanion&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Write Screwed Up Stuff?</title>
		<link>http://writingcompanion.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/writing-theme-story-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing help & technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christos Tsiolkas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Kress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story element]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like reading quotes about writing. Another writer&#8217;s view can work magic, providing a new perspective. Nancy Kress describes the cornerstone for writing fiction as— Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up. What does she mean? When you&#8217;re drafting, it&#8217;s easy to feel you are drowning in details—the arc of the story, beats, characters, scenes. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1283430&#038;post=2590&#038;subd=writingcompanion&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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