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	<title>Jordan Summers</title>
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	<description>Romance Writer &#38; Urban Fantasy Novelist</description>
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		<title>Test Driving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on my YA as I&#8217;ve noted in earlier blogs. To clean up my writing process, I purchased Scrivener. Scrivener is a wonderful writing tool for the Mac, but as Larissa and Stephanie warned me, it has quite the learning curve. I needed something that would allow me to get right to work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/03/07/test-driving/</link>
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		<title>The Pains of Reinvention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reinvention requires something I&#8217;ve never been very good at&#8211;letting go of the past. I&#8217;m not someone who &#8216;lives&#8217; in the past, but I don&#8217;t tend to let go of things easily. My comfort zone is quite small. It&#8217;s been made worse so by working from home. There are a lot of things to analyze, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/03/02/the-pains-of-reinvention/</link>
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		<title>Talking a Novel Out or How To Get &#8216;Unstuck&#8217; 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I started writing my young adult urban fantasy. Everything was literally flying along&#8230;until I took a break to write a novella for an upcoming anthology. I figured since the work was short I wouldn&#8217;t have any problem jumping right back in to my YA. WRONG!!! I have struggled with the manuscript ever since. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/26/talking-a-novel-out-or-how-to-get-unstuck-101/</link>
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		<title>Young Adult Novels &amp; Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I spent several hours trying to re-chart out my YA (young adult) novel. I know there&#8217;s a structural problem because events happen too quickly in the beginning. I thought it would be an easy fix. Ha, Ha, Ha! Needless to say, I&#8217;m still working on it. I suppose I should be thankful that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/25/young-adult-novels/</link>
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		<title>Craft, PEARLS, and Vampires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been buckling down to study the craft of writing. I&#8217;m currently working my way through Characters, Emotion &#038; Viewpoint by Nancy Kress and Plot &#038; Structure by James Scott Bell. The latter I&#8217;m using to tighten up my story structures. There&#8217;s a lot of really good stuff in both books. Thus far, I&#8217;d highly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/22/craft-pearls-and-vampires/</link>
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		<title>Designing and Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on the design of my new website. I admit it is taking longer than I&#8217;d like. I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what I want to put on the site and how to implement the changes. Determining the focus has been tough. I don&#8217;t want it to be a mirror image of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/20/designing-and-reading/</link>
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		<title>And The Winner Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winner of The First Drop of Crimson is SHERRI. Congratulations!!! Just drop me an email with your address and I&#8217;ll get the book in the mail to you.  
Thank you to everyone who entered.
Copyright &#169; 2010 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/17/and-the-winner-is-2/</link>
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		<title>How To Ruin A Story&#8211;What Happens When An Author Is Taken Out Of The Movie Equation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went to see Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. I&#8217;ve read the first couple of books in the series (and plan to read the rest). Dh has read all five. We love the series. It&#8217;s a lot of fun and does a great job at setting up the characters, conflict/s, and story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/14/how-to-ruin-a-story-what-happens-when-an-author-is-taken-out-of-the-movie-equation/</link>
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		<title>Hearts, Flowers, and Puppy Dog Tails&#8230;or Something Like That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is Valentine&#8217;s Day. I used to wait with anticipation to see if I would get any gifts/flowers/candy&#8230;all through high school and my early twenties. Let&#8217;s just say my anticipation was met with great disappointment. I can only remember a few (ie three times) in those years when I actually received a Valentine&#8217;s Day gift/card. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/13/hearts-flowers-and-puppy-dog-tails-or-something-like-that/</link>
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		<title>Innsmouth Free Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m over at the Innsmouth Free Press site today talking about writing paranormals.
Copyright &#169; 2010 Jordan Summers. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.jordansummers.com so we can take legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jordansummers.com/2010/02/07/innsmouth-free-press/</link>
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