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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;D04DQXg9fyp7ImA9WhRWE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120858044946149115</id><updated>2011-12-31T18:59:30.667-05:00</updated><category term="Middletown" /><category term="Guidelines" /><category term="Kidd Coffee" /><category term="Franklin" /><category term="Cincinnati" /><category term="schedule" /><category term="Critique" /><category term="Ohio" /><category term="MAC Writers" /><category term="Donna J. Shepherd" /><category term="Dayton" /><category term="Authors" /><category term="Writing" /><category term="Donna Shepherd" /><category term="Fiction" /><category term="blogging" /><category term="blog" /><category term="Nonfiction" /><category term="Christian" /><category term="Meeting" /><category term="writers" /><category term="Children's" /><title>M.A.C. Writers</title><subtitle type="html">&lt;b&gt;Middletown Area Christian Writers

&lt;br&gt;Are you in the Cincinnati-Dayton area? Join us for encouragement and fellowship!&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;I will extol you, my God and King,
   and bless your name forever and ever.&lt;/em&gt;- Psalm 145:1 &lt;/br&gt;</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://middletownwriters.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://middletownwriters.blogspot.com/" /><author><name>Donna J. Shepherd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101584349756490950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="27" height="32" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uK2xJPcrKmA/R4-ehK4l8XI/AAAAAAAAATU/um5deeTleRw/S220/Donna+at+Picnic.JPG" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MacWriters" /><feedburner:info uri="macwriters" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>MacWriters</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEINR3g9fip7ImA9WhRRFUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120858044946149115.post-5059184268378381937</id><published>2011-10-19T08:41:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T13:49:56.666-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-29T13:49:56.666-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="writers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Authors" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kidd Coffee" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Donna Shepherd" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Meeting" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Critique" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MAC Writers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Donna J. Shepherd" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogging" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="schedule" /><title>Exciting Meetings in Our Future</title><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6120858044946149115/posts/default/5059184268378381937?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6120858044946149115/posts/default/5059184268378381937?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MacWriters/~3/JoGkh7OqHnE/exciting-meetings-in-our-future.html" title="Exciting Meetings in Our Future" /><author><name>Donna J. Shepherd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101584349756490950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="27" height="32" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uK2xJPcrKmA/R4-ehK4l8XI/AAAAAAAAATU/um5deeTleRw/S220/Donna+at+Picnic.JPG" /></author><content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f-13kp1BpM3D0V7LRyxIhdVOTrM/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f-13kp1BpM3D0V7LRyxIhdVOTrM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f-13kp1BpM3D0V7LRyxIhdVOTrM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f-13kp1BpM3D0V7LRyxIhdVOTrM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Our next MAC Writers meeting will be Tuesday, January 17, 2012 from 7 - 8:30 pm. Download a flyer and invite someone to come with you. Click HERE to print out your invitation. Please scroll down to see our guidelines. 

Every meeting, we get to share good news - even if it's that we've started writing. Or finished another chapter. Or submitted a piece. We celebrate every step. I'd love to see all&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacWriters/~4/JoGkh7OqHnE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://middletownwriters.blogspot.com/2009/08/exciting-meetings-in-our-future.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkcESH89fSp7ImA9WhdTGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120858044946149115.post-4468923563602141873</id><published>2011-04-03T19:35:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T16:26:49.165-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-07-17T16:26:49.165-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Children's" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Guidelines" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Writing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Critique" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Nonfiction" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cincinnati" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fiction" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="writers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Authors" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christian" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Meeting" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dayton" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Franklin" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ohio" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Middletown" /><title>Critiquing Guidelines</title><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://middletownwriters.blogspot.com/feeds/4468923563602141873/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6120858044946149115&amp;postID=4468923563602141873&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6120858044946149115/posts/default/4468923563602141873?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6120858044946149115/posts/default/4468923563602141873?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MacWriters/~3/L7i0v3drREM/critiquing-guidelines.html" title="Critiquing Guidelines" /><author><name>Donna J. Shepherd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101584349756490950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="27" height="32" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uK2xJPcrKmA/R4-ehK4l8XI/AAAAAAAAATU/um5deeTleRw/S220/Donna+at+Picnic.JPG" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><content type="html">
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bR2YstzoNsLTGwAhl9cVD6pVB-c/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bR2YstzoNsLTGwAhl9cVD6pVB-c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Presenting is voluntary, not mandatory, for participation in this writers’ group. Writers offer up to three pages (no more) of double-spaced copy, 12 point font, for constructive criticism after reading their work aloud to their small group. If able, bring at least ten copies of your work. 

1. Reasonable Expectations. The purpose of a critique session is to offer a positive opinion, a different &lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacWriters/~4/L7i0v3drREM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://middletownwriters.blogspot.com/2007/04/critiquing-guidelines.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

