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		<title>Dragon Footprints</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been posting, but I&#8217;ve been WRITING&#8230; The following snippet of conversation is growing into a mystery novel. We&#8217;ll see where it goes! Dragon Footprints &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Trick question: Do dragons leave footprints in the snow?” &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Um…ah…” Peter paused. He was thinking. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “I told you that it’s a trick question, if you say [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Writing Without a Net!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything I’ve ever read about writing a murder mystery involved detailed outlines and in-depth planning of characters and their motives. Every piece of writing advice was the same. But I’m best when I’m writing without a net. I’m aware, as the story rolls along, that I’m leaving breadcrumbs for the reader and for myself, too. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ghost Writer&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I forgot all about this funny, little story… I wrote it years ago and when I found it in my fiction cold storage locker in the cloud, I decided to share it. Yes, I’ve done some ghostwriting, but NOTHING like this protagonist! &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I don’t know how it happened. The words just fell out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alternate 2&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many mystery novels begin in the middle of the story with a teaser about where the action is heading. I’ve employed that gambit in one of my three short novels about LOVE &#38; ART, entitled Alternate 2. The word ‘alternate’ refers to an alternate juror as this is a story centered around the kind of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pandemic Puppy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a lot of short stories during the COVID lock-down and the months that followed. Most were first person accounts of a pandemic experience. Not my own experience, but that of the characters&#8230; Pandemic Puppy is one them&#8230; Pandemic Puppy &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Even before Covid, folks kept asking me when I was going to sell [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking in 3 Dimensions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I stumbled into a pottery studio and wound up signing up for a wheel class. I had no natural affinity for wheel work, but it was fun—messy fun. My notable accomplishment was leaving each session with clay in my hair and very small, heavy-bottomed, slightly lopsided pots. Eventually I got better—never [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is this how a novel starts?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This image came to me last September. I wrote it down and it sat for a while teasing my imagination. It&#8217;s now the opening of an untitled novel-in-progress. The summer after the old man died, the house started to fall apart. First the roof—with shingles falling during an early summer windstorm—and then the basement flooding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Character of TIME</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People often talk about the setting of a story as a character. Daphne du Maurier’s gothic ‘Rebecca’ is a classic example of a place—in this case a house called Manderley—at the center of the story. The famous opening line sets the novel in motion… &#160;“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”&#160; I think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Here’s a strange little tale about BIG ideas…I found it in my cold storage locker in the cloud. I wrote it a few years ago and the inspiration still haunts me.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Conversations &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “Grandma, when will it stop? When will I stop talking to them in my dreams?” &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “I don’t know, dear, I don’t know. Maybe I’m not the right person to talk to about this?” &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; “But how long? They’ve been gone for years. In the dream I was in the house with them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This is the opening of one of my three mysteries about ART &#038; LOVE. It&#8217;s called Other Sons</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candy Korman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I might as well come right out and say that I’m an eccentric narrator. I come by it naturally. My grandpa was a fabulist of the first order. He told wonderful stories! My siblings believed him—every word of every story. Me? I knew from the start that there was a difference between fiction and lies. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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