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		<title>A glossy facade doesn&#8217;t stand up to scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know I&#8217;m overseas at the moment, far from the sunny shores of Queensland. When we&#8217;re way we tend to prefer to base ourselves in a city, rent an apartment and take day trips from there. Usually that works just fine but sometimes it&#8217;s not as good as it might have seemed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1871&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murder your darlings? Maybe&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night for some reason known only to my brain I woke up thinking about self-editing and how one goes about this rather onerous chore. Some parts are relatively simple and here I mean looking for over-use of adjectives and adverbs, typos, lousy sentence construction and the like. The hard part is deciding what is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1868&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The pass at Kirkstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life and things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakes district]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say the weather was wet when we headed into the Lakes District was an understatement.These pictures were taken through the windows of the moving vehicle &#8211; nowhere to stop, besides, it was raining. The rain wasn&#8217;t torrential but it was relentless, tumbling from clouds which felt like they were at little more than ceiling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1862&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seven things you might want to know about Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am on the other side of the world, an Australian &#8216;over there&#8217;. What have I discovered? Well&#8230; 1. The weather is cold It may be late spring in Scotland, but there is still snow and we had sleet on the windscreen. Thank goodness I brought a jacket. 2. The roads are narrow Very, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1856&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time I wrote a sequel to &#8216;Morgan&#8217;s Choice&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morgan Selwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time I wrote a sequel to &#8216;Morgan&#8217;s Choice&#8217;. I&#8217;ve had that idea in mind from the very beginning and I&#8217;ve written a few scenes. I&#8217;ve stashed them somewhere, I&#8217;ll find them… Basically, Morgan&#8217;s going home. To get further than that, I need to know her current mindset and what better way to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1853&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case of the curious cockatoo</title>
		<link>http://gretavanderrol.net/2012/04/26/the-case-of-the-curious-cockatoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bird]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cockatoos are very smart birds – very smart animals. One of my favourites is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, a big white bird with a big loud squawk and a big powerful beak that thinks nothing of chewing through an unopened pine cone. They&#8217;re great fliers, acrobatic show-offs and I&#8217;m sure they have a sense of humour, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1840&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The only thing that really matters is the story</title>
		<link>http://gretavanderrol.net/2012/04/22/the-only-thing-that-really-matters-is-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules of writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[star wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thrawn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading a book at the moment; in fact this is the third time I&#8217;ve read this book. So what&#8217;s special about that? Well, for a start, it&#8217;s fan fiction, built on the Star Wars universe. In a way, you might say it&#8217;s an unauthorised use of the franchise, something to which George Lucas et [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1827&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t you love a series?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne McCaffrey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Moon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit, I love series of books. If I find an author I enjoy, a story I can relate to, as soon as I&#8217;ve finished one, I&#8217;m hankering for another book in the same setting. Before I go any further, let&#8217;s define what I mean by &#8216;series&#8217;; a set of books set in the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1818&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Start of a new day</title>
		<link>http://gretavanderrol.net/2012/04/16/start-of-a-new-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beach]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever get that &#8216;now what&#8217; feeling? Where something is finished and you&#8217;re left empty, casing around for something else to do? It&#8217;s a bit how I feel at the moment, one project set free and now awaiting its fate, another teetering on the brink. I&#8217;ll start when I&#8217;m ready, when I feel less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1814&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch where you&#8217;re putting your claws</title>
		<link>http://gretavanderrol.net/2012/04/12/watch-where-youre-putting-your-claws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greta van der Rol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lorikeets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes photo opportunities just… happen. I was working on a synopsis when I heard the familiar chirps of a couple of rainbow lorikeets. A lot of them live around us, we see them frequently but they hadn&#8217;t come in close to the house for a few days. So I picked up the camera and went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gretavanderrol.net&#038;blog=13852607&#038;post=1806&#038;subd=gretavanderrol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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