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	<title>Laura Rae Amos</title>
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		<title>the indie author hat, part 1: worthiness reconfigured</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not going to be a post about what I think you should do &#8211; you&#8217;re the only one who can answer that for you &#8211; but this is a post about what I&#8217;ve decided to do, and why. It seems, since we all have these choices now, people feel inclined to vocalize what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/01/25/the-indie-author-hat-part-1-worthiness-reconfigured/</link>
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		<title>officially introducing: Exactly Where They&#8217;d Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s shocking to me how little I&#8217;ve managed to say publicly about this book so far, especially when I used to say so much about previous projects. I have my reasons &#8211; gun-shy about all those half-written books I didn&#8217;t finish (yet), which made me worry I&#8217;d never finish a project. That I was incapable. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/01/13/officially-introducing-exactly-where-theyd-fall/</link>
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		<title>2011, in retrospect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Song: &#8220;Someone Like You&#8221; by Adele This was one of the &#8220;soundtrack&#8221; songs I played on repeat while I wrote Exactly Where They&#8217;d Fall this year, so maybe I have a more emotional reason for considering it my favorite. If anyone was ever curious to know how my book feels in song form &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/31/2011-in-retrospect/</link>
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		<title>week #50-something: songs that remind me of the 90&#8242;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those fluffy posts, because I failed to have anything more significant to say. You can be assured I&#8217;m just pouring all of my brain-power into my fiction. Because if this post were edible, it would be cotton-candy. Modern songs that remind me of the 90&#8242;s: Silversun Pickups, &#8220;Lazy Eye&#8221; They remind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/18/week-50-something-songs-that-remind-me-of-the-90s/</link>
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		<title>week #33/52: fall in a snapshot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it outside a couple weeks ago just in time to snap a few fall pictures before the colors were gone for good. Now it&#8217;s December, and freezing outside, and we&#8217;ve put up our Christmas tree. Wow, how did that happen? A rhetorical question, of course, because I know how it happened &#8211; I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/12/09/week-3352-fall-in-a-snapshot/</link>
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		<title>5 favorite spring/summer reads&#8230; a little bit late ;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is well done and over with, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to get these up here for a while now. These are not full reviews (because I don&#8217;t do real reviews, lol!), but just a few words on my five favorite reads from the first half of the year. Click through for the full GoodReads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/11/23/5-favorite-springsummer-reads-a-little-bit-late/</link>
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		<title>week #19/52: future Sims-neighborhood-building enthusiast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s more like his mommy than he knows.]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/16/week-1952-future-sims-neighborhood-building-enthusiast/</link>
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		<title>songs for stalking, a playlist for my writer friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever written a stalker protagonist before? My friends and I were talking about this this evening, and they helped me compile a list of some more twisted love songs. Yes, I&#8217;ve written one. A short story. Her name is Lynn, she likes to jog (past people&#8217;s houses&#8230;), lol! Also pasting the list here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/14/songs-for-stalking-a-playlist-for-my-writer-friends/</link>
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		<title>writing like a girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a really good post, by Jane Roper over at Grub Street Daily: What is women&#8217;s fiction, and what does it mean to be a &#8220;women&#8217;s fiction&#8221; writer? This part struck the feminist in me particularly hard: As best I can tell, Women’s Fiction refers to fiction that focuses on the relationships and emotional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/10/14/writing-like-a-girl/</link>
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		<title>the politics of a school lunch box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[D started kindergarten this week, which is a full day program here where we live. I&#8217;m packing him a lunch from home, so far. I&#8217;d first been worried about his peanut allergy (come to find out, they only have one, very apparent, item that has peanuts in it &#8211; a peanut butter and jelly sandwich). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/09/08/the-politics-of-school-lunch-box/</link>
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		<title>week #17/52: reward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please pardon my abrupt absence. I *officially and completely* finished the second draft of my novel a couple weeks ago (!!!), and then promptly ran off with my boys to northern Michigan for a week of fun! I have a TON of pictures to sort through from the trip, and those will be posted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/08/30/week-1752-reward/</link>
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		<title>week #15: boys at the seaside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a small series of photos I found within other larger landscape photos I took in England. Most of these I hadn&#8217;t even known were there until I super-zoomed in and found these little candid moments that I never would have caught otherwise. Taken from very ordinary and uninteresting landscape photos like this one: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/08/06/week-15-boys-at-the-seaside/</link>
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		<title>DRM, fair use, and how to read (some) Kindle books on your Nook!&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be part rant on DRM, be warned, lol! (Other part on how I love my Nook, but I&#8217;m still a Amazon Kindle loyalist at heart! AKA how the Nook store sucks!) On DRM (digital rights management): I am in support of fair use of DRM-free ebooks. Meaning, if you purchase an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/07/26/drm-fair-use-and-how-to-read-some-kindle-books-on-your-nook/</link>
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		<title>pictures of my NookColor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I added a new toy to my collection yesterday! My new NookColor (left) against my laptop (behind) and my phone (right). (Starring books by N.M. Martinez, Shana Norris, and Karyn Gerrard.) Inside illustrations (if made in color) are displayed in color as well, which makes me very happy since I&#8217;m planning a collection of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/07/24/pictures-of-my-nookcolor/</link>
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		<title>week #14: welcome to Wanborough, please drive carefully!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[60 mph, white knuckles, barely enough room for two cars! 90-degree turns in the city, where I swear, people are not heeding the 30 mph speed limits! And if you were ever worried about driving on the left side of the road, or going through a roundabout, I say BAH! Try driving in the English [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/07/13/week-14-welcome-to-wanborough-please-drive-carefully/</link>
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		<title>my first year as a part-time (soon-to-be) novelist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My boy finished his last week of preschool last week. This first year for us &#8211; first year of school for him, first year working on anything in a very focused capacity for me &#8211; went by sort of unnoticed, I think. We started it, and became immersed in it, and just as soon it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/06/06/my-first-year-as-a-part-time-soon-to-be-novelist-2/</link>
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		<title>week #13/52: hideout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no story for my photo this week. (And by the way, I&#8217;m sure anyone following this will have noticed that I&#8217;m hopelessly behind in my weeks, with little chance of ever catching up &#8211; and I don&#8217;t really care.) Last Friday, I passed 50K on the second draft of my novel-in-progress, and just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/05/23/week-1352-hideout/</link>
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		<title>toys for writers to play with, part 2: editing software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, if this needs to be said, no piece of software will ever write your story for you. And no program will ever be able to replace a human editor either. A machine cannot tell you if your story works or not. It has no idea. That said, there are some programs available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/05/16/toys-for-writers-to-play-with-part-2-editing-software/</link>
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		<title>toys for writers to play with, part 1: Liquid Story Binder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Nina was the one to introduce me to Liquid Story Binder. I&#8217;ve been meaning to write something about this program ever since I got it, but I keep coming up blank. It&#8217;s very hard for me to put into words exactly how much LOVE I have for this program. (I know, that&#8217;s lame, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/05/02/toys-for-writers-to-play-with-part-1-liquid-story-binder/</link>
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		<title>week #12/52: how to stand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s excerpt is actually a title, from my in-progress collection of stories and poems: How to Stand on Your Hands *** notes: And so I went on a quest for the ultimate mangled dandelion. And I took a damn lot of pictures of them too! (I may or may not have even dreamed about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauraraeamos.com/2011/05/01/week-1252-how-to-stand/</link>
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