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		<title>Plotting versus Plodding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a dilemma. In between my new part-time job as a lawyer and raising three kids, I have been working on my third novel. I&#8217;ve been about 130 pages in for months now and stuck right there. The basic plot is sound. It&#8217;s driven by suspense and crime in a small suburb. And yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a month I will not soon forget.
The details are not important and many are not mine to disclose. I&#8217;m tired on every front and not even sure why I&#8217;m attempting to write except for the fear that if I don&#8217;t write this now, and publish it, I will think better of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2011/01/grateful/</link>
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		<title>Social Lives Paperback Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paperback is out today! Honestly, like everyone, my mind is on grocery shopping, cleaning the house for guests, making travel plans and keeping the kids occupied while they&#8217;re out of school. Hardly the best time to try to promote a book.
But here goes anyway!
Forget the cover, the title, and jacket description. There are plenty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/11/social-lives-paperback-release/</link>
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		<title>Delayed Gratification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now 70 pages into the novel and taking a break to go on vacation with my lovely children. It is a good place to pause because the story has been set up and I now have to prepare the structure for the unfolding of the plot that has been established.
Speaking with other writers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/08/on-suspense/</link>
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		<title>Quick Excerpt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is going to be very short because I am in the thick of it right now.
For anyone who has lost a true love, does this do it justice?
I met George  fourteen years ago. I didn’t need to think about it, about how long it had been, because I always know. There are places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Novel Structure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read my novels, Four Wives and Social Lives, you know that I like to write within a specific structure. Multiple characters, alternating chapters, different voices. This enables me to keep the plot moving, connect readers with each of the characters, and intertwine several plot lines within one master story. It&#8217;s also a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/08/a-novel-structure/</link>
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		<title>My New Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I write a new novel, there is a new love. And shaping that love in a way that will be both provocative and familiar is the real challenge. Much of the love that surrounds us is like a favorite pair of jeans. Sometimes they feel amazing. Sometimes they make us feel sexy. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/08/my-new-love/</link>
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		<title>Conversations with Christopher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my plan to get going on the new novel failed. It all started out fine. I packed the canvas bags, drove the kids to camp, went to yoga and headed home to start work. Then the phone rang. 
It was my oldest son calling from camp. He was sick. Coughing, sore throat. I passed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/08/conversations-with-christopher/</link>
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		<title>Back to the Grind!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My second novel, Social Lives, was released almost a year ago and I am horrified that I am just now starting the third! In my own defense, I edited two more Chicken Soup for the Soul collections and wrote a screenplay. But still. I&#8217;ve been doing something I never used to do &#8211; procrastinate. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/07/back-to-the-grind/</link>
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		<title>More Chicken Soup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

Happy Spring!
I haven&#8217;t written for a while. I&#8217;ve been hunkered down writing a screenplay and starting a new novel, editing Chicken Soup books and doing yoga. For those of you who read my post last year when I bailed on yoga and anything remotely zen to accommodate my crazy busy life, I apologize for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wendywalkerbooks.com/2010/04/more-chicken-soup/</link>
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