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		<title>Structuring Stories Really Works !</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, just a short followup on last week&#8217;s post, about planning stories. The previous post, about structuring your story, was itself a followup to a previous note I sent to NewsBlaze writers, about layout and subheadings. This week, I wrote a story using that &#8220;CopyBlogger&#8221; planning method, and I liked the results I got. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan To Write, Write To A Plan</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2012/05/25/plan-to-write-write-to-a-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2012/05/25/plan-to-write-write-to-a-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 23:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I planned to write a note about improving stories, and then I found a great post from Copyblogger, Pamela Wilson. Pamela&#8217;s story, &#8220;A Simple Plan for Writing One Powerful Piece of Online Content per Week&#8221; covers some of the things I wanted to say, but also goes into much more, about structuring the production of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Work Easier For NewsBlaze Editors</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2012/04/06/making-work-easier-for-newsblaze-editors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few NewsBlaze writers either don&#8217;t have time to access the story editor system or they find it hard from where they are. &#8211; Some are in Asia, where internet connectivity isn&#8217;t always great. So we get a lot of submissions by email. About 6 years ago, we wrote a processing program that picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relative Clauses May Be About Uncles And Aunts</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/09/25/relative-clauses-may-be-about-uncles-and-aunts/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/09/25/relative-clauses-may-be-about-uncles-and-aunts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we realize it or not, we all use relative clauses in our grammar. The main use of the relative clause is that it tells us which person or thing we are referring to, in a sentence. A relative clause is easy to recognize because we use one of these four &#8220;W&#8221; words: who, whom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formatting Paragraphs For Easy Reading</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/07/17/formatting-paragraphs-for-easy-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, The Easy Way When you visit a news site or blog with a long story and very few paragraph breaks, you probably find it difficult to read. Very long paragraphs are hard to read for many reasons. A massive amount of text in a single block doesn&#8217;t give you any visual clues about what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Proofread By Scanning?</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/06/24/can-you-proofread-by-scanning/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/06/24/can-you-proofread-by-scanning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proofreading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scanning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skim reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing makes an editor cringe as much as seeing a spelling error in a published headline &#8211; and I&#8217;ve seen too many! In print, there is nothing you can do about it. Online, it used to be that you had a window of opportunity to make a correction, but now, with fast-acting search engines and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Effect Does Affect Have on a Headline?</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/20/what-effect-does-affect-have-on-a-headline/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/20/what-effect-does-affect-have-on-a-headline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Effect and Affect are similar words, with subtly different, importantly different meanings. The way to (almost) always get the right word (any word) is first to understand the meaning of the word you are using, and second, to actually speak it, either out loud or silently. Once you understand the words thoroughly, as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline Spelling Errors &#8211; How To Make The Editor Cry</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/09/headline-spelling-errors-how-to-make-the-editor-cry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headline errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Headline Spelling Errors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newsblaze.com/blog/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing makes an editor cringe as much as seeing a spelling error in a published headline. In print, there is nothing you can do about it. Online, it used to be that you had a window of opportunity to make a correction, but now, with fast-acting search engines and social media buttons, that window is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apostrophes in Headlines Are Bad</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/06/apostrophes-in-headlines-are-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/06/apostrophes-in-headlines-are-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t like apostrophes in headlines. Recently, a United Nations story came in with two apostrophes in the headline The Headline was: NGOs&#8217; Assistance Vital to United Nations&#8217; Battle Against Drugs I think this is bad because it makes the headline too complex and difficult to read. Simple style is usually better. Editors need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful With Plurals in Headlines</title>
		<link>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/02/be-careful-with-plurals-in-headlines/</link>
		<comments>http://newsblaze.com/blog/2011/04/02/be-careful-with-plurals-in-headlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headline errors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two problems in this headline Together as One Combined Security Forces Assists Local Village This is why Del Marbrook suggests you read your headline aloud. I am a word reader, not a skimmer, so these jump out at me. Many people, even editors, skim read. When you skim, you can easily miss errors. [...]]]></description>
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