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		<title>Evaluating Your First Page</title>
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 Evaluating Your First Page 
 View more PowerPoint from Jane Friedman 


I can&#8217;t even tell you how much I love this PowerPoint slide show about book beginnings. Let me count the ways:
1) Common 1st Page Troubles: Backstory, Info Dump, Character Dump
2) Biggest Bad Advice: Start with &#8220;action&#8221;
3) Action But No Character: Offers an action [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/05/10/evaluating-your-first-page/</link>
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		<title>Z is for Ze</title>
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An Invocation for Beginnings &#8211; Ze Frank

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		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/30/z-is-for-ze/</link>
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		<title>Y is for Yuvi</title>
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Yuvi Zalkow

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		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/28/y-is-for-yuvi/</link>
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		<title>X is for Xebec</title>
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A xebec was a Mediterranean sailing ship that was used mostly for trading. It would have a long overhanging bowsprit and protruding mizzen mast. It also can refer to a small, fast vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea.

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		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/27/x-is-for-xebec/</link>
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		<title>W is for Walking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The value of mental-training games may be speculative, as Dan Hurley writes in his article on the quest to make ourselves smarter, but there is another, easy-to-achieve, scientifically proven way to make yourself smarter. Go for a walk or a swim. For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/26/w-is-for-walking/</link>
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		<title>V is for Vegetables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my backyard (and yes I know they&#8217;re really fruit, but I&#8217;m all about the irony)! Click for the bigger versions, which are pretty good considering I used my Blackberry!




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		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/25/v-is-for-vegetables/</link>
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		<title>U is for Undeniable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNDENIABLE (available now for pre-order in print at Amazon and Barnes &#038; Noble; electronic versions to come closer to release date) will be released October 2, 2012 from Berkley Heat. Heat is Berkley&#8217;s erotic romance imprint, and they publish such authors as Lauren Dane and Jaci Burton, and many many more. This means Undeniable is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/24/u-is-for-undeniable/</link>
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		<title>T is for Toes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago when I was complaining about my back being stiff after a long day of writing to a deadline, the husband dared challenged me to do a series of toe touches to stretch. (And honestly, I meant to include &#8220;stretch&#8221; in Saturday&#8217;s S sampler.) I guess he didn&#8217;t think I could, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/23/t-is-for-toes/</link>
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		<title>S is for Sampler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunshine
I don&#8217;t know why, but my writing flows so much better when the sun is shining. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s the natural light fighting the mild case of SAD I get when the weather is gloomy. I could never live in Seattle, heh, so I grin and bear the heat of the Texas summers.
Sleep
I&#8217;m very fortunate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/21/s-is-for-sampler/</link>
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		<title>R is for Repetition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wind was brittle, bitterly cold. She sat on the park bench, waiting, the wool of her coat and pants no match for the cold seeping up from the cement. Her toes were frosty, her fingertips near to frozen, her breath formed a cloud when she exhaled into the cold air.
Yes, I wrote that. Just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alisonkent.com/blog/2012/04/20/r-is-for-repetition/</link>
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