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					  <title><![CDATA[Life, Passion... Deadline]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/36561/1/Life-Passion-Deadline/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[The Conclusion of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesYou&#039;re ready to write the story of your life You&#039;ve put your heart and soul into it]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:47:35 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Planning A Heart-Stopping Story]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/35331/1/Planning-A-Heart-Stopping-Story/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Part VII of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesOver the last six lessons, you&#039;ve figured out your theme, and you&#039;ve worked out at least one and possibly several subthemes You&#039;ve learned how to use blended scenes, intercuts, and cliffhangers to work both themes and subthemes into your work]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:32:49 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Interweaving Your Novel&#039;s Themes And Subthemes]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/33864/1/Interweaving-Your-Novel039s-Themes-And-Subthemes/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Part VI of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesWhen you&#039;re writing a book, you want every page to drag the reader to the next one, even if she&#039;s late for work, even if it&#039;s two o&#039;clock in the morning and he needs to be up at six, even if the plane has landed and your weary traveller really must get bags in hand and get off the plane]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:25:51 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Dig Deeper With Your Novel&#039;s Subthemes]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/32797/1/Dig-Deeper-With-Your-Novel039s-Subthemes/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Part V of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesBy now, you have a solid grasp of the importance of having a theme for your story, of keeping it personal and hidden (to avoid writing the dreaded Message Book), and of hanging on to the courage of your convictions in writing it the way you need to, knowing that you cannot ever please everyone, nor should you try]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:19:55 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Playing Chicken With Your Story]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/31342/1/Playing-Chicken-With-Your-Story/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Part IV of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesAnd now we come to the hard bit  You&#039;ve got your theme, and you&#039;ve figured out how to bury it so that it&#039;s there for you, and SOMETHING meaningful is there for your reader]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:26:59 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Burying Your Novel&#039;s Message]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/30496/1/Burying-Your-Novel039s-Message/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Part III of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesIn the first two articles, we&#039;ve explored how essential it is to have a theme to give your novel direction, and how to find those themes that will resonate with youYou&#039;d think that once you have a theme, you could just sit down and write your book about that, and you&#039;d bring powerful emotions and passionate storytelling and compelling, page-turning action to your tale---but it just ain&#039;t so]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:52:27 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[How To Find Your Novel&#039;s Pulse]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/28816/1/How-To-Find-Your-Novel039s-Pulse/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[PART II of The 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesThe best novels you&#039;ve ever read---the ones that stuck in your mind and kept you going back to re-read them, that made you think, that made you feel, maybe that scared your socks off---were not about what they were aboutSound cryptic]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:07:12 EDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Does Your Novel Have A Heartbeat?]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.usais.org/articles/27703/1/Does-Your-Novel-Have-A-Heartbeat/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[PART I of The 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE SeriesYou&#039;ve read through what you&#039;ve written---your first few scenes, your first chapter, your completed novel---and you&#039;ve discovered that your words don&#039;t move you They don&#039;t make you want to keep reading]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Holly Lisle)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:53:26 EDT</pubDate>
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