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		<title>Creativity can obscure your message</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/04/28/creativity-can-obscure-your-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an age of digital this and that, when many of us live large parts of our lives online, creativity often obfuscates our message. Obfuscate means to &#8220;render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible,&#8221; as my dictionary defines it. It&#8217;s not that the creativity we bring to something isn&#8217;t imaginative. It&#8217;s often very imaginative; very clever and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content has a problem and it is easily stated: I have no interest in it. I don’t believe many do and, of those who are interested in it, they aren’t interested in content but in what it can do for them. I don’t want to read or watch content. A movie? Yes. A video? Yes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art and utility</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/19/art-and-utility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year (much longer, actually), we’ve seen the idea of creativity being the key to business success in the world and the world as it is evolving. We’ve seen new phrases pop up like “the creative economy” or &#8220;tell your story.&#8221; When we talk about creativity, we inevitably talk about art. Not all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No absolutes with stories</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/11/no-absolutes-with-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is helpful to think of stories as equations there is one very important caveat. Unlike a mathematical equation where the result is absolute (1 plus 2 can only be 3), results are never absolute with stories. There are any number of possible results – some more credible than others, but none an absolute. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories are equations</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/10/stories-are-equations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how stories work: 1 plus 2 equals 3. They are equations. However, unless you’re a mathematician, this kind of equation isn’t very interesting. Storytelling is an art (or craft, if you prefer). A storyteller makes his or her equation appealing by jazzing it up, a bit like this: One dishonest cop plus two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The affair of the missing Part II</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/05/the-affair-of-the-missing-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possible you are wondering where Part II is, the post that follows up my post from a few days ago, People and stories — Part 1. I&#8217;m wondering that too. Both of those posts, the published one and the missing follow-up, are part of the document I&#8217;m creating as part of GloManWriMo, a month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About the other fiction of Disrupted Lives</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/09/25/about-the-other-fiction-of-disrupted-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/09/25/about-the-other-fiction-of-disrupted-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an idea about this ebook I put together, Disrupted Lives and Other commotions. I decided against it for a number of reasons but it keeps popping up in some of my tweets and Facebook updates. Let me describe the idea. The ebook is made up of seven stories. So it is fiction (with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astonishing feedback on upcoming ebook</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/09/12/astonishing-feedback-on-upcoming-ebook/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/09/12/astonishing-feedback-on-upcoming-ebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a short ebook recently. It&#8217;s called “Disrupted Lives and Other Commotions,” a collection of seven short stories I&#8217;ve written. I think of it as being a beta version since it&#8217;s partly an exercise in creating an ebook in order to see what is involved and how easy (or hard) it is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double digit nothing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/12/double-digit-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have been characterized by lots to do, a good deal of frustration and, most significantly and surprisingly, reassessment. In other words, I&#8217;m over-extended and not in a good way. I probably have twelve posts on twelve different topics that I have started over the last few weeks, none of which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/16/efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” - The Kinks - On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]]]></description>
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