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		<title>Day 2 of the Desert Lockdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After all was said and done, I got through 49% of the manuscript.  I feel good, having made progress, but there&#8217;s still plenty of work to be done!  I hope to get through the rest of the manuscript over the next week, two weeks max.  Then, let the rewriting begin! In the meantime, some pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Day 1 of the Desert Lockdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived at my desert destination at about 1:15pm today, and immediately settled in and ate lunch (PBJ on wheat courtesy of my friend Erin).  After writing my last blog post, I got busy tagging up the manuscript. There&#8217;s a lot of change ahead for Tossing the Gloves, but I am beginning to see how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Immediate Goals and New Toys!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I feel like I&#8217;ve been all over the place.  I can&#8217;t get focused; I can&#8217;t get grounded.  So, I decided I needed to get away. Now I&#8217;m in the middle of nowhere, in a California desert, hidden away in a hotel room with another writer friend in an effort to get focused and grounded.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=310</link>
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		<title>Review: SOMETHING BORROWED by Emily Giffin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOMETHING BORROWED was recommended to me by a number of friends, and I had bought it long ago though I did not read it until now. This was a challenging book for me to get through. It&#8217;s not the writing, it&#8217;s not the story or the situation the characters are in, and it&#8217;s not even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=301</link>
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		<title>Diversified Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been trying to be a little more diverse in my reading selections.  Lots of authors suggest that aspiring authors should read everything they can get their hands on.  (Hey, sometimes, I can only get my hands on work-related items, you know what I&#8217;m saying?).  So, in an effort to diversify my reading habits, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE by Katherine Howe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book caught my attention a few months back when I saw the author interviewed on the Borders website. The author&#8217;s own history of being a double-descendant of women who were accused in the Salem witch trials made me more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=289</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Haps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, some of you may know that Tossing the Gloves was sent to an editor for feedback as part of the Book In A Year program at one of my local chapters.  I&#8217;ve received the editor&#8217;s feedback, and an invitation to revise and resubmit, earlier this month and now have a long list of revisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=284</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Not-Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve got this list, see?  Of things I NEED TO-DO. Top of the list: put away laundry, er, after I organize my closet.  Followed by:  sweep &#38; mop floors (note to self: investigate a way to do so under the bed), go through the random stacks of paperwork lying stashed into sections of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=280</link>
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		<title>Back to my Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a great, dedicated blogger.  Of course, this is back when I was writing entry after entry on the Anaheim Ducks over at Girl with a Puck and neglecting fiction.  But I abandoned the hockey blogosphere to re-enter the world of fiction, and opted to start this blog to keep track of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=276</link>
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		<title>Asian, American, and Whitewashed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve pretty much stayed off the publishing world&#8217;s hot topics since I&#8217;ve started blogging here.  For the most part, that&#8217;s because I often feel &#8220;not informed enough&#8221; to formulate a response to some of these industry stuff such as the Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle (ongoing, as far as I know) and the Kindle Missile Crisis.  I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christyfinn.com/?p=271</link>
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