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		<title>What is “Emotional Punch” and Why Do You Need it in Your Romance Novel? Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By LISA WHITEFERN To intensify emotional punch you must steadily increase the emotional problems of your protagonists in a story. Think about your current heroine and hero. Are they troubled by internal doubts? Do they face self image problems? Do they have reasons for feeling they don’t deserve unconditional love?  My story is a ménage]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[* HEALTH FOR WRITERS series  By JEANAN GLAZIER Tired eyes? Been staring at your computer screen for a long time? Relief is in sight! (Pun intended!) If you wear glasses, then please remove them. If you wear contact lenses, then it really is best to remove them. Can you comfortably sit on the floor in]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Labels: Secrets of the Universe Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[* WINE 101 FOR BEGINNERS series  By GRACE DRAVEN “In vino veritas (In wine there is truth)”, or so Pliny the Elder has been credited with saying. He would have been even better served if someone had slapped a wine label onto the amphora.  Wine labels reveal the secrets of the universe. Okay, that’s a]]></description>
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		<title>Somebody That I Used to Know</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2012/04/somebody-that-i-used-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By EMILY RYAN-DAVIS If you listen to the radio in the car, read Forbes magazine, watch Glee, or tweet, you’ve heard—or heard about—the hit duet featuring Gotye and Kimbra. And you probably know what you’re listening to, whereas up until about two weeks ago, I had no clue. No clue that I could nail down,]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Reasons to have a Big Wedding</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2012/04/top-ten-reasons-to-have-a-big-wedding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ELYSA HENDRICKS With spring in the air a young man&#8217;s fancy turns to love, but a young woman&#8217;s eye lands on an entirely different prize &#8211; a wedding, preferably a BIG one. May and June are the traditional months for insanity &#8211; I mean weddings. So what is it about planning a wedding that]]></description>
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		<title>Screen to Scene: Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2012/04/screen-to-screen-dialogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ELLE RUSH As a writer, my biggest distraction is the television.  If I’m going to give into my greatest weakness, the least I can do is multi-task.  Story is story and writers know you can use steal from anywhere. If you are going to watch television, go for the good stuff.  “Storage Wars” is]]></description>
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		<title>Which Season is Your Book In?</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2012/04/which-season-is-your-book-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SUZAN BUTLER Ever notice how your story goes through phases while you write? Sometimes it&#8217;s hard, sometimes it&#8217;s easy, and sometimes, you wish it had a neck so you could strangle it. Sometimes it&#8217;s cooperative, other times, you wonder why you started writing it. Each story you write, like every year, has its seasons.]]></description>
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		<title>What is &#8220;Emotional Punch&#8221; and Why Do You Need it in Your Romance Novel? Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By LISA WHITEFERN One of the most common comments from editors rejecting romance manuscripts is “this story needs more emotional punch.” But what does this really mean? Emotional Punch in a romance is created by the amount of empathy a reader feels for your characters. It is the rapport she feels for your hero and]]></description>
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		<title>Author of the Month, Grace Greene</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2012/02/author-of-the-month-grace-greene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of her personal disasters, Beth is called back to her hometown of Preston, a small town in southwestern Virginia, to settle her guardian’s estate and runs smack into the mess she’d left behind a decade earlier: her alcoholic father and the long-ago sweetheart, Michael, and the poor opinion of almost everyone in]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight On, Nancy Naigle</title>
		<link>http://romancedivas.com/2011/10/spotlight-on-nancy-naigle-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Naigle writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense. After spending most of her life on the Virginia coast, she and her husband left Tidewater for greener pastures a little further inland in Southampton County. They now live on a 76 acre goat farm where Nancy spends every spare moment working]]></description>
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