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		<title>He said, she said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embarrassing but true; one of the biggest mistakes we all make when we first start writing is with our speech tags. There is the tendency to make our characters cry, yell, exclaim, retort, whisper, slur, snap or beg.
The truth is said can cover all these things and many more. The action surrounding the speech, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/08/01/he-said-she-said/</link>
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		<title>To E or not to E?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the options I mentioned in the previous post was self-publication. One of the cheapest and easiest ways of self-publishing is epublishing (online). But when is it right to shun traditional publishers and go it alone?
The fact is you need to ask yourself if there is a reason you work hasn’t been picked up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/28/to-e-or-not-to-e/</link>
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		<title>The Waiting Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact is you have three options for publication;

Get others to publish your work
Publish it yourself
Don’t publish

Given that a lot of us are trying for the first option, it means those who do the publishing have a lot of options. A **LOT** of options. So when they put out a call for submissions (and even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/25/the-waiting-game/</link>
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		<title>The Deadly Crayon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Titles, they are one of the first things you notice about any story. So if your title doesn’t command attention you are at risk of losing a significant slice of the market before they have even read that crushingly great first line that you spent three months perfecting.
So what makes a good title? Obviously it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/21/the-deadly-crayon/</link>
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		<title>Avoiding Junk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I ask myself if Nigeria is the real cradle of civilization. After all, it does seem that all of us have at least one wealthy relative living there, though perhaps ‘had’ would be more appropriate given we only find out about them after their passing, when we inherit their massive fortune. All we need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/18/avoiding-junk/</link>
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		<title>Who am I?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently signed up to Twitter I am now getting a nightly dose of publisher and writer ‘Tweets’, the thing is, I’m not quite sure what it’s all about. Let’s face it, when you only have 140 characters to play with you can’t exactly give a preview of your next novel.
Many of the writers I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/14/who-am-i/</link>
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		<title>Who are you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When investigating ‘how to get published’ one thing you are sure to come across is the advice to write for your audience. But until you have an audience, how do you know who your audience is? I write this blog each week, yet (with the exception of Nick who I grill every Monday to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/11/who-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have found myself getting into lots of conversations about ‘what you would do if you didn’t have to work.’ I know, for me it is obvious; become FreeCell champion of the world and get a few novels written on the side, but for others it spans from the mundane to the entirely fanciful, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/07/tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>iBlog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My quest to become a more tech-savvy writer has sent me in many directions this week, none of which were actually to the keyboard to write. But I have learned a lot about tweeting, blogging, commenting and following.
And this helps you how? Because now it is time to share what I have learned, to help build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/07/04/iblog/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Self-Promotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think there is such a thing as shameless self-promotion for anyone who is serious about selling anything to the public. In a world of tweets, Facebook updates and iEverything it is only with self-promotion that you can hope to stand out from a very noisy crowd. The days of being the reclusive writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nataliejepotts.com/blog/2010/06/27/shameless-self-promotion/</link>
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