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		<title>#7. BS is for &#8216;Back Story&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All your main characters have a back story that you should probably know inside out. However, your readers don&#8217;t need to be exposed to all the excruciating detail. A sure fire way to let your narrative pace slip away forever is to foist a chunky back story on them in the first chapter.
Back story, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#6 (Dull) Beginning, (Sagging round the) Middle and (Lame at the) End.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dull, sagging and lame.  Who would want a life like that?  Who would want to be like that? Yet, it&#8217;s amazing how many stories sitting in slush piles around the world seem to have been modelled, at least partially, on this the &#8216;Dull beginning, sagging middle and lame ending.&#8217;
Beginning
When you sit down to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scribbleresource.com/prepare-your-writing/6-dull-beginning-sagging-round-the-middle-and-lame-at-the-end-14/</link>
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		<title>#5 Pace: Cracking or Grinding?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your reader is into the third paragraph of your story and although she has already developed a connection to your main character, nothing seems to be happening.  She&#8217;s beginning to feel the tug of the outside world.  The main character doesn&#8217;t seem to be doing anything.  The shopping list for this evening&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scribbleresource.com/prepare-your-writing/5-pace-cracking-or-grinding-16/</link>
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		<title>#4 Enter Deus Ex Machina; Exit Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enter Deus Ex Machina; Exit Reader
Ben Elton was being steered away from committing the crime of &#8216;Deus Ex Machina&#8217; by a master of plot-writing.  &#8216;Deus Ex Machina,&#8217; translated literally as &#8220;god out of a machine,&#8221; is an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event which drops into the story from nowhere. Its sole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scribbleresource.com/prepare-your-writing/4-deus-ex-machina-35/</link>
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		<title>#3 Facing up to Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#3 Facing up to Conflict.
In Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s &#8216;Fight Club&#8217;, Tyler Durden gives his followers a special task to fulfill before they meet again: to pick a fight with someone in the &#8216;real world.&#8217;  As they find out, most people will go to any lengths to avoid being embroiled in a conflict.  In fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scribbleresource.com/prepare-your-writing/3-conflict-2-38/</link>
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		<title>#2 Story Structure - The Journey Without and Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing a Structured Story
I remember one of my good friends approaching me after completing a story - the first of his that went on to get published - and saying, in a state of awe and wonder, &#8216;Structure is everything.&#8217; He had a point. It was certainly addressing structure that had changed his writing from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scribbleresource.com/prepare-your-writing/story-structure-39/</link>
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