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	<title>Aaron’s Publishing Diascribe</title>
	<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com</link>
	<description>A feature formerly known as a blog, in which our narrator documents his longshot bid to make it in the publishing biz...</description>
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		<title>Bon voyage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Diascribe Faithful,
The original intention of this blog was to show the process of going from unpublished to agented to published and all the highs, lows, and bumps along the way. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s taking a bit longer to go from agented to published than originally hoped and for now I need to focus all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/05/15/bon-voyage/</link>
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		<title>Conference Wrap-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What to write?
I could easily write a gossip-filled analysis of the social goings-on at this year&#8217;s Pikes Peak Writers Conference&#8211;complete with names, dates, and mortal sins committed. After all, it was a weekend full of drinking, cussing, flirting, rumor-mongering, boundary-pushing, drinking, young-meat stalking, agent-and-editor-meat stalking, drinking, talk of gay porn, lesbianism, and open marriages, drinking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/05/01/conference-wrap-up/</link>
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		<title>At the conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dearest readers,
I had hoped to have an entry before conference got underway, but my daycare is closed today and conference starts tomorrow. Please check back for a conference follow-up next week.
Thanks!
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		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/04/24/at-the-conference/</link>
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		<title>Sweating it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing, as they say, is 1% inspiration, 99% sussuration? &#8212; no &#8212; usurpation? &#8212; no &#8212; constipation? &#8230; perhaps I should look it up &#8230; aw who am I kidding, I&#8217;m too lazy to look it up. Besides, the quote is probably not even about writing. It&#8217;s probably about cooking or origami or that type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/04/17/sweating-it/</link>
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		<title>The Pig, the Raft, and the Bus &#8212; Writers Group Shorthand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I expect every writers group has their own shorthand&#8211;a vocabulary able to sum up mountains of meaning in molehills of words. In my writers group, there are some very efficient phrases like 1) &#8220;good point,&#8221; 2) &#8220;I see&#8221; 3) &#8220;okay, I&#8217;ll get right on that,&#8221; and 4) &#8220;thanks,&#8221; which mean, respectively 1) &#8220;lousy point,&#8221; 2) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/04/11/the-pig-the-raft-and-the-bus-writers-group-shorthand/</link>
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		<title>Yearning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been roughly five weeks since I got the wonderful/agonizing news that my book was being presented to the board at Harper Collins for possible acquisition. Since then, I have never been more than a few feet out of range of my phone. I monitor my email by the minute. And yet&#8230;no news is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/04/03/yearning/</link>
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		<title>Group Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my writer&#8217;s group. I love them like a family. The kind of family you see in prime time television. Not quite the Cosby Show perhaps, or even Everybody Loves Raymond. More like&#8230; Hmm. Let me think about it a moment and see if I can come up with a more precise analogy. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/03/20/group-therapy/</link>
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		<title>How to make it as a writer when you haven&#8217;t actually made it&#8230;yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am to jobs what last week&#8217;s featured guest on Jerry Springer was to his 11 wives, 31 children and 2 girlfriends: trouble. My résumé resembles a hobo&#8217;s wardrobe&#8211;ill-fitting, mismatched and full of holes. I have been a bookstore clerk, an office lackey, director of multimedia development for a software company, a waiter,  CEO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/03/13/how-to-make-it-as-a-writer-when-you-havent-actually-made-ityet/</link>
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		<title>Frequency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not wanting this diascribe to be merely a dumping ground for vomit writing, I have published somewhat infrequently. As a means of generating traffic and regular readership the effectiveness of this strategy rates a little below a schnauser mating with a tennis shoe, and a little above the war on drugs. Therefore, I shall be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/03/11/frequency/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Jeffery Deaver&#8217;s Seminar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During his wonderfully well-polished and well-delivered seminar last weekend, Jeffery Deaver said that he&#8217;d heard it said that being a writer is like always having homework. How apt! During my first few months in my first real job after college, I reveled in the thought that the end of the workday meant the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aaron.pikespeakwriters.com/2008/03/06/thoughts-on-jeffery-deavers-seminar/</link>
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