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		<title>Additional Thoughts on Mockingjay: I Figured It Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few days since I finished MJ, and I still can&#8217;t get it out of my head. I even dreamed about that blasted book. So you know it&#8217;s going to stick with me. In fact, I&#8217;ve considered buying THG in paperback, going to the very end of the novel, and blocking out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/09/10/additional-thoughts-on-mockingjay-i-figured-it-out/</link>
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		<title>Book of the Moment: Mockingjay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy #3) by Suzanne Collins
Began: August 30
Ended: September 7
I should probably make this entry about the trilogy as a whole, but my main beef is with the third book. I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself, so let me give you some background info.
I&#8217;ve known about the Hunger Games trilogy for&#8230; I think six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/09/08/book-of-the-moment-mockingjay/</link>
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		<title>Bah, Or Not in the Mood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No real post today, folks. Sorry. Not only have I been more involved with hurricane tracking, an incident came up at work that&#8217;s left me rather depressed and, frankly, seriously angry. I don&#8217;t even feel like writing a short review of The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel. I got to read it before it was even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/09/01/bah-or-not-in-the-mood/</link>
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		<title>Giving In to the Manuscript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It nagged me like an insufferable employer. Begged me like a love-starved child. And I gave in.
Despite all my resistance and reasoning, I couldn&#8217;t ignore my doorstop novel. I started editing the first part today. I&#8217;m work-whipped. What can I say? Maybe now that I&#8217;m working on it again, I&#8217;ll soon stop writing random notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/30/giving-in-to-the-manuscript/</link>
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		<title>Dear Author: The Non-Reviser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Author,
There&#8217;s nothing more mentally draining than seeing your corpulent form waddle into the store. You just have this air about you, this arrogance born from stubborn blindness and a staggering refusal to accept reality. You certainly haven&#8217;t endeared yourself to us, but I doubt you realize that&#8230; or care.
As much as I detest you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/24/dear-author-the-non-reviser/</link>
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		<title>Editing: Monday Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so the three week break isn&#8217;t exactly three weeks. I shaved off a few days. But I&#8217;m making up for it, because I&#8217;m tacking on a mess of days! (And I&#8217;m not exactly going to be musing so much as thinking out loud&#8230; in type. I just wanted to alliterate in the title.)
That&#8217;s right. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/23/editing-monday-musings/</link>
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		<title>Preparing to Edit: Things I&#8217;m Realizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew major edits were in store when I finished my doorstop novel. Long hours of reading and rereading a 500-page work, deleting scenes and dialogue I&#8217;ve come to cherish, adding new scenes and links to plot points, and basically revamping the whole thing to make it better than it was before. Despite the agonizing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/20/preparing-to-edit-things-im-realizing/</link>
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		<title>Book of the Moment: &#8220;The Moral Instruments&#8221; Trilogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Moral Instruments Trilogy: City of Bone, City of Ashes, City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Began: Christmas 2009
Finished: Spring 2010
I&#8217;ve got to be honest with you, I read a lot of reviews for this trilogy. Back in Christmas 2009, this was one of the more popular sells, and being the contrary soul I am, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/18/book-of-the-moment-the-moral-instruments-trilogy/</link>
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		<title>Concept Art: &#8220;Making Fire&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t I say I&#8217;d write a short review of the Mortal Instruments trilogy? Yeah, I did, a week or so ago. Trust me, I&#8217;ll get on it. I&#8217;ve been so hyped on finishing my manuscript that I wanted nothing more than to bask in the high before it dissipated and the horror of major future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/16/concept-art-making-fire/</link>
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		<title>WIP: &#8220;Evan and Ronny&#8221;: COMPLETED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of Tuesday, August 10th, 12:05 pm, the first draft of Evan and Ronny is complete at a staggering  141,496 words.
I cried on and off for about an hour. I even texted my husband at work to tell him. After years of wondering if I was ever truly capable of finishing another novel, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.obnoxious-gal.net/2010/08/11/wip-evan-and-ronny-completed/</link>
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