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  <title>Life in a Northern Town</title>
  <subtitle>Layla</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Layla</name>
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  <updated>2013-07-25T04:34:05Z</updated>
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    <title>Advice for aspiring writers</title>
    <published>2013-07-24T18:20:54Z</published>
    <updated>2013-07-25T04:34:05Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">A couple of days ago, someone asked me via PM if I could give them some advice on starting a professional writing career (they were interested in writing SFF and romance). I'm probably not the best person to ask given the current state of &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; professional writing career -- but I went and wrote out a ginormous infodump in a PM, and then I decided to repost it here, because it might be useful to someone else, I guess?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, you guys can tell me if I'm way off base with any of this. Or if anyone has additional suggestions, tell me, and I can edit them in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://layla.dreamwidth.org/226063.html#cutid1"&gt;Advice for aspiring writers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there it is ... maybe someone will find this handy, or maybe you guys have some better suggestions and/or would like to point out places where I'm way off base here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=layla&amp;ditemid=226063" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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