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Articles in October, 2003 issue of Writing!

• Untangling the lines: revision: award-winning novelist Will Hobbs tells what he tries to accomplish when he revises his writing.(Focus)
  by Hobbs, Will
• Sell your words! a well-written query letter can get your writing noticed--and published.(Writing an Effective Query Letter)
  by Davis, Kate
• Try-outs: a student poet uses deceptively simple language to capture the complex emotions that surround a stressful experience.(Student Writing)
  by Montgomery, Amanda J.
• How I handle rejection: all writers face rejection sometimes. That includes top pros like Jane Yolen. In this humorous excerpt from Take Joy: A Book for Writers, the versatile author tells how she deals with it.(Reading-Writing Link)
  by Yolen, Jane
• Perplexed by possessives? if you learn the logic behind possessives, you can use them correctly to convey your ideas.(Troubleshooters)
  by Jenkins, Diana R.
• Forced to volunteer?
• Getting rid of goobledygook: don't let your writing become more complicated that it has to be.(Power Of Words)
  by Orr, Tamra B.
• Read. Be inspired. Write back.(Special Feature)
• Memories between the pages.
  by Langford, Jazlyn
• Fear and hope in the future: in her haunting novel Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry paints a picture of a rugged, primitive future world.(Author's Craft)
  by Lenhoff, Alan