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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Awards</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/18/shortlisted-for-the-queensland-premiers-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I started a blog to chart the creation of a new novel. The idea was to follow the ups and downs in writing—the long drawn out pauses between frantic flurries of activity that make up the writing of a larger work into something that might be something of a success.
That same novel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I come from</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/11/where-i-come-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CV]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Digging around in some of the backwoods of my computer&#8217;s hard drive, I came across a writing CV last opened and modified on 31st October, 1999. I was a little surprised at the date on this file. You see, back in 1999, I had no writing credits. I was yet to be published anywhere and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here Today: The Better Synopsis</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/07/here-today-the-better-synopsis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[synopsis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the redraft. I think the differences speak for themselves. Probably.

When your self-esteem is shattered by harsh reality, can stories save you?
Here Today is a contemporary novel that follows a young occupational therapist’s locum stint in a Brisbane hospital. Astrid is rootless and restless in her life — unable to commit, unable to settle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here Today: The crapper synopsis</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/02/here-today-the-crapper-synopsis/</link>
		<comments>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/02/here-today-the-crapper-synopsis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the synopsis written for my first novel, the older version that feels a little laboured and floppy. I think I wrote this under pressure of a deadline and it shows. It smells of desperation. Please, please, please make this novel about something, damnit!

When your self-esteem is shattered by harsh reality, can stories save [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the synopsis</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/08/01/on-the-synopsis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[The End Credits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, there it is. The synopsis is now out &#8216;in the wild&#8217;, as they say. It seems strange to put out so much information about a novel that exists only as a manuscript on someone&#8217;s desk (not mine).
I wanted to put it up on the web site though, partly to prove to myself that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synopsis: NOTOFFMCL</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/07/31/synopsis-notoffmcl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Star Jones was a shoo-in to take out the grand finale of the MusiClash, the television talent quest that pitches itself as the only show that matters. With a truckload of talent and the singular viciousness of her uber-stage-Mum, Bunny behind the scenes, Liberty was set to coast her way into this Christmas&#8217;s number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone: The Ultimate eBook Reader?</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/07/11/iphone-the-ultimate-ebook-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Characters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digital fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eBooks]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the iPhone was released today and another contender for the ultimate digital reading device enters the Australian market.
What? No one said anything about the iPhone as a digital reading device (or eBook reader if you want to get cute).
Actually, in places where the iPhone has already been available for up to twelve months, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay of execution</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/07/04/stay-of-execution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[journals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from the previous post, a new development.
With some amazement I write again to announce that the University, in its wisdom, having let LiNQ almost expire, has now decided that it [should] try to resuscitate the journal. So there will be at least one more issue
My previous rant still stands, by the way, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale LiNQ (and by the freaking way&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/06/27/vale-linq/</link>
		<comments>http://simongroth.com/2008/06/27/vale-linq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Characters]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This message arrived in my inbox the other day.
With deep regret I&#8217;m writing to say there will be no 2008 issue of LiNQ. The general editor has unable to gain funding, and the University has not provided staff support or other assistance. We are therefore unable to produce any further issues of the journal.
With LiNQ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The competitive edge</title>
		<link>http://simongroth.com/2008/06/26/the-competitive-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://simongroth.com/2008/06/26/the-competitive-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Author</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Characters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[competitions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://simongroth.com/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few mad last-minute tweaks, the new novel is now dispatched for competition. I would have liked to get an appraisal (and the associated editorial raking over hot coals) before doing this, but you never know when you might fluke a win.
This brings me to the point of this post. Competitions are strange beasts. [...]]]></description>
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