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          <body><![CDATA[When I had a full-time job, I used to write at night after my children were in bed. I'd also write during my lunch hour, and at every spare moment when I was working on a project.  There were nights when my writing went on into the wee hours of the morning. My co-workers knowing I was writing a novel demanded to read the chapters as I went along. And if it didn't work out that I wrote the previous night, they were all disappointed.  It got to be that it was their &quot;fix&quot; at lunch time to read chapters from my book, wondering where I was going with it.  They all tried to guess the ending, but since I didn't know it myself, no one guessed it...not even me. :-)!]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[The only book I threw across the room was a Higher Math book.  I was so frustrated with the way the author had explained the equation that I threw the book across the room. (The Professor wasn't any better). My daughter picked the book up and shook her head when she read the explanation. As a Physics student she explained the problem in question and how to solve it, so that I could easily breeze through it and others thereafter.  (Following her reasoning not the Professor's). Yes I passed with one of the top grades in the class.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Hi, everyone. My novel The Gatekeeper's Realm is listed as number 14 in the Grab A Reader Contest in Lost in a Good Book with the Writers and Readers of Distinctive Fiction (WRDF)<br/><br/> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.elceepublishing.com">http://blog.elceepublishing.com</a><br/><br/>I would greatly appreciate any and all votes for my novel. Actually, I really would like to win one contest before I leave this planet if that is in the stars. :-)!]]></body>
        
    
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