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	<title>Vivid Description</title>
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	<description>(an online writing workshop)</description>
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		<title>Where Igneous Rocks are Formed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The heavy window creaked as he tried to push it above his head.  He clenched his teeth and inched his head around. The three sleeping figures didn’t seem to have moved from their last position. He relaxed, turned back, and forced his thin body through the opening.

His feet made a slight thud as the bottoms of his sand-shoes hit the ground. As much as he enjoyed walking barefoot, the path to the beach could get rocky. Other than the moon, there would be little light along the way. He didn’t want to have to explain to his older brothers why his feet were all cut up. Better to be safe and wear shoes.]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/where-igneous-rocks-are-formed/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHAPTER TWO   &#8220;Life keeps tumbling your heart in circles ‘Til you let go. ‘Til you shed your pride, and you climb to heaven And you throw yourself off. Now you’re out there spinning In the deep.&#8221; –Bird York                 I was never the type of girl who attracted much attention from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/chapter-2/</link>
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		<title>One Night Stand- First Draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It was my first time,” Violet confessed defensively as she and Ashley took their seats in the corner booth of their favorite diner. There was something in her tone that screamed “cover-up” even as the words rolled off of her tongue without hesitation. “I have never slept with a guy on the same night I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/one-night-stand-first-draft/</link>
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		<title>For a Limited Time Only &#8211; third draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The large crowd that lined the city sidewalk pressed against the steel, police barricades.  Several officers, some on foot and others mounted on horses, paced up and down the streams of people, checking for stragglers who may have escaped from the clearly defined maze. The air was heavy and warm which was not unusual for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/for-a-limited-time-only-third-draft/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHAPTER ONE   &#8220;In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.&#8221; –Alex Haley    “Maybe I&#8217;ve been put on earth to be an ordinary person. Not to do anything great, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/chapter-1/</link>
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		<title>In a Sea of Strangers &#8211; Prologue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PROLOGUE  “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” – Virginia Woolf  “A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.” – Fox Mulder, X-Files   I stood at the back door gazing into the darkness. A million blades of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/in-a-sea-of-strangers-prologue/</link>
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		<title>For a Limited Time Only-second draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The large crowd that lined the city sidewalk pressed against the steel, police barricades.  Several officers, some on foot and others mounted on horses paced up and down the streams of people, checking for stragglers who may have escaped from the clearly defined maze. The air was heavy and warm which was not unusual for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/for-a-limited-time-only/</link>
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		<title>Writing Prompt #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it helps to be given a prompt of some kind to springboard our writing.  Writers, feel free to use it or not use the following prompt as inspiration for whichever genre you so choose: &#8220;For a limited time only&#8221; Good luck!]]></description>
		<link>http://vividdescription.com/writing-prompt-1/</link>
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