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		<title>Website Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone. Just to let you know, I have been busy creating a new website for my writing and editing services: www.playle-editorial-services.com. I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2009. My blog started out as a place to document my education, career and literary journey, but as these aspects of my life have developed, strengthened and divided, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Interlude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been around six weeks since my last update &#8211; probably the longest I&#8217;ve gone between posting. Once again, I am becoming overwhelmed with how fast time seems to be moving these days. What have I been up to these past few weeks? Well, I am in the middle of creating a separate website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write with Resonance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interpreting the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaningful writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Similarly, the beauty of literature is a personal type of resonance.  It is the moment when the words on the page become more than just narrative – they transcend their medium, they make us pause, reflect, perhaps shiver with revelation. This might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Shift from Short Story to Novel Writing &#8211; Part 2: Five Simple Steps</title>
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		<comments>http://sophieplayle.com/how-to-shift-from-short-story-to-novel-writing-part-2-five-simple-steps-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beginner writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to write a novel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I suggested that it is common (and useful) for writers to start out developing short stories before moving onto novel writing. I then looked into the finer details of the differences between short story and novel writing to assess why that might be, and how writers can use that information to make the shift [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Shift from Short Story to Novel Writing &#8211; Part 1: An Examination of Differences</title>
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		<comments>http://sophieplayle.com/how-to-shift-from-short-story-to-novel-writing-part-1-an-examination-of-differences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[differences between short story and novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to write a novel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sophieplayle.com/?p=1706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I suggested that many writers start out producing short stories before they move onto novel writing. The short story is by no means simply &#8216;practice&#8217; for novel writing, but it can teach the writer a number of valuable writing skills that can be used to tackle the bigger beast of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning the Writer&#8217;s Journey: Short Stories vs Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When starting out as a novel writer, is it more useful to build the writing muscle by writing short stories, or immerse oneself in novel writing and learn as you go? To me, this is an interesting question. When I first started writing as a hobby ten years ago, I was naturally drawn to the short story. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, New Start</title>
		<link>http://sophieplayle.com/new-year-new-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing goals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year whizzed past. I&#8217;ve been in shock recently: has is really been a whole year since I was setting my writing goals? It seems like only last week. Looking back over the goals I set, it is disappointing to see that I didn&#8217;t achieve many of them. The reason why is painfully obvious: I set the destination goal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Routine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writer's block]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;How&#8217;s the novel going?&#8217; &#8211; the dreaded words I&#8217;m faced with on a frequent basis. Those words conjure  feelings of guilt and depression. Because I realise that since the last time I spoke to this person, the novel is very much not going. For many reasons. All of them flimsy, invalid. The Novel is getting wild as it grows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Personal Ode to Libraries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the BBC reported that around 600 libraries in England have been closed due to budget cuts. This is something that has been in the news for a while now. I find it very sad. I have always loved libraries, since as long as I remember. My love of libraries was probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There An Up-Side to the Penguin Random House Merger?</title>
		<link>http://sophieplayle.com/is-there-an-up-side-to-the-penguin-random-house-merger/</link>
		<comments>http://sophieplayle.com/is-there-an-up-side-to-the-penguin-random-house-merger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Playle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may be aware, over the past few days a merge between Penguin and Random House has been confirmed. At first, it seems that the Big Six publishers (Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins, Random House, and Simon &#38; Schuster &#8211; who own the vast majority of the publishing market) cannibalising into the Big Five can only be [...]]]></description>
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