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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: WHERE DO WE GO NOW?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[cheapandflimsygrandeur asked you:
Where do we go from here?
Dear cheapandflimsygrandeur,
IT IS HERE! The final day of NaNoWriMo. The end of the road. The last stop. The jumping off place. No matter what you’ve done with NaNoWriMo-whether you wrote 50,000 words or 5,000 or 500-you did something. Yay! Something! It’s something you didn’t have on October 31st!
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/30/ask-auntie-mj-where-do-we-go-now/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: ONE FLEW OVER THE NANOWRIMO NEST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[saidreadertorider asked you:
Dear Auntie MJ, recently one of my best friends has started treating me like I’m insane because I talk about my characters as though they’re real people. How do I explain to him that I understand the line between fiction and reality but I like ignoring it and that I’d rather be crazy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/29/ask-auntie-mj-one-flew-over-the-nanowrimo-nest/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: THE HARD QUESTIONS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[alinatheduck asked you:
Dear Auntie MJ, I am concerned that if I discuss religion and the faults in certain denominations in my NaNoWriMo novel that I will be seen as disrespectful towards religion just because my character is. How do I do my characters’ views justice even though people will think of me as judgmental and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/28/ask-auntie-mj-the-hard-questions/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: NOW YOU ARE JUST MAKING UP WORDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[lacitedamour asked you:
Is it okay for me to make up words for my novel? I have a habit of making adjectives adverbs or verbing nouns that makes the story make more sense to me, but I’m not sure if the English language allows for that.
Oh lacitedamour of my heart,
Here is a fact that people love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/27/ask-auntie-mj-now-you-are-just-making-up-words/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: DOING THE RESEARCH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[katwaterflame asked you:
Do you do research for your books? If so, where do you find the research items?
My dear katwaterflame,
Auntie MJ has an MFA, a fact she sometimes brings up, but only SOMETIMES, and only in the right circumstances. This is largely because no one cares. But it is relevant here, because Auntie MJ has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/26/ask-auntie-mj-doing-the-research/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: LET’S GO TO BEARDY MOUNTAIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ajunkiesloins asked you:
I stopped having fun writing. How can I try to make writing fun again?
We must go to the mountain now, and we must know the truth. We must climb and seek out the people in flowing robes who have big beards. Even the women of these mountains have big beards—that is how WISE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/25/ask-auntie-mj-lets-go-to-beardy-mountain-2/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today’s Ask Auntie MJ column takes the form of this video. Auntie MJ is not abdicating responsibility-it is a holiday. And there is a lesson to be learned. It is easy to get VERY CAUGHT UP in something, like a NaNoWriMo draft, and start forgetting to TALK TO PEOPLE and SPEND TIME WITH THEM. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/24/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: THERE IS NO SPOON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[afashionablefrown asked you:
MJ, I have finally succumbed to asking you a question. Hear me out. How do you know when you’re ready to begin? I’m scared that I am plotting out too much, but every time I sit down to start my first draft, I realize that there is a vital detail I am missing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/23/ask-auntie-mj-there-is-no-spoon/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: WHY AM I DOING THIS?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[erraticartist asked you:
Dear Aunty MJ, it seems as though there is a certain amount of pressure to edit and rewrite ‘finished’ NaNoWriMo novels, is there anything wrong with just writing for the fun of it?
Dear erraticartist,
Your question fills Auntie MJ with joy and she happily provides the answer: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/22/ask-auntie-mj-why-am-i-doing-this/</link>
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		<title>ASK AUNTIE MJ: HULK EDIT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[lisapizza asked you:
this is really a question for the end of the month, but now that i have a first draft, how do i edit it? i won nano a couple of years ago but trying to edit the behemoth was so intimidating that i never looked at it again.

If you have reached the end, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/11/21/ask-auntie-mj-hulk-edit/</link>
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