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		<title>Bloghopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds vaguely perverse, doesn&#8217;t it? Well, if that&#8217;s how you got here, hello and make yourself at home.  New friends are always welcome.  Feel free to poke around.  The main website www.elspethcooper.com has more about me and my writing.]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble and strife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love my husband dearly.  In fact, if I loved him any more, it would be downright unhealthy.  But I can&#8217;t write whilst he&#8217;s in the house. He&#8217;s had a week off work, and it&#8217;s a miracle I&#8217;ve got any writing done at all.  He&#8217;s trying not to interrupt me, bless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/280</link>
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		<title>The Idea Shower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those cringe-worthy pieces of corporate management-speak that should have passed its best before date long before now, but which you still hear trotted out by the same people who think it&#8217;s cool to say &#8220;That&#8217;s blue-sky thinking!  Let&#8217;s run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.&#8221;  Urgh. But as it happens, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/269</link>
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		<title>Health and inefficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers will know (don&#8217;t try to hide behind the sofa; I know there&#8217;s at least four of you) that I am busy finishing Book 2 of The Wild Hunt, Trinity Moon. What you may not know is that as if MS wasn&#8217;t enough fun by itself, I&#8217;ve also been diagnosed with gallstones. Honking great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/261</link>
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		<title>La belle dame sans merci</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a clematis at the bottom of my garden.  A vigorous, large-leaved, free-flowering variety called Madame Le Coultre, which produces glorious paper-white flowers the size of tea-plates, in great abundance, every year, in spite of&#8211;or possibly because of&#8211;my sporadic attentions.  Like this one: This morning, I discovered that Mme had fallen under her own weight, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/251</link>
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		<title>The countdown has begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve had some very exciting news.  I&#8217;ve been told that I might have some roughs for the cover of Songs of the Earth to look at soon.  With my editor, we&#8217;ve finalised the cover copy a.k.a the bit on the inside flap that makes you, the reader, start salivating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/247</link>
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		<title>What happens next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me the other day why I write.  Easy.  I write because I don&#8217;t know how not to. I&#8217;ve been a storyteller all my life.  Since I could hold a pen, and make marks on paper that weren&#8217;t just copying something off the blackboard.  It&#8217;s as natural to me as breathing. As time went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/239</link>
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		<title>Socks discrimination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or &#8220;Whose book is it anyway?&#8221; Part Two. I was inspired to compose this post by a friend of mine, MM Bennetts, who feels not at all confident about writing female characters and was therefore somewhat stunned to find one had leapt, fully formed, like Athene from the brow of Zeus, onto the pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/237</link>
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		<title>Father, forgive me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for I have sinned. I&#8217;ve never read George RR Martin. Don&#8217;t ask me why, because I really couldn&#8217;t say.  I adore the title of the series &#8220;A Song of Ice and Fire&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve just never found myself motivated to pick up one of his books.  Actually, tell a lie, I did pick up a copy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/233</link>
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		<title>Whose book is it anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett once said in an interview that you&#8217;ve got to keep an eye on your secondary characters, or they&#8217;ll take over the show.  Turn your back for five minutes and there they are, merrily rearranging the plot to suit themselves, the blighters, and generally making more work for the poor put-upon writer. I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elspethcooper.com/blog/archives/224</link>
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