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		<title>Lost in The Shallows</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“According to an extensive 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, most Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even three of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazed by how much more there is to know</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel better now &#8212; and at least for now. I finally changed something that has been bothering me for a long time. My header use to say Writelife and below it, &#8220;Musings on the craft of writing, technology, social media and whatever else comes along.&#8221; Apart from being a bit pretentious with words like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intention and human behaviour</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/intention-and-human-behaviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You make something. It’s intended to do this and to be used in a certain way. Then people come along and muck it all up by using it in an entirely different way. You intended this; people did that. People make you nuts sometimes. Ian Roundtree had a post on the weekend where this came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This world will amaze you</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/22/this-world-will-amaze-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from walking the dog in the park. While there, we met a guy. We stopped and chatted. He told me his story. I now feel exuberant. His story contained joy and tragedy; points of recognition; coincidence; verve and laughter. It amazed me. It goes like this: If you’ve read my posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exuberance fuels creativity – book review</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/22/exuberance-fuels-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Life could be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.” – McHugh/Fields – (This review originally appeared on the Thoughtwrestling blog, June 8, 2010.) I think it’s safe to say most people would rather be happy than unhappy. You feel better when you’re happy. There is also another reason why I prefer it: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breadth, depth and brains</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/15/breadth-depth-and-brains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always liked Nicholas Carr for his skepticism. Unlike contrarians, who take opposing views for their own sake, Carr as a skeptic asks questions, the kinds that challenge assumptions. Challenging assumptions is good for the brain. I’ve just picked up his latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains and I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Emotions are contagious’</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/08/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You write like a woman</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/24/you-write-like-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tend to define certain qualities as male and female, perhaps as a result of being in the west with its long tradition of patriarchy. The sun is male; the moon female. Tough and hard is male; soft and comforting is female. Austere is male; ornate female. It carries over to writing. When it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What unifies these links?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/16/what-unifies-these-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bear with me. This promises to be a chaotic ramble (very much resembling the week that is winding down) &#8230; I want to share a few links and possibly burble a bit. First of all, there is Thoughtwrestling, the blog focused on generating ideas, solving problems and finding solutions. To that end, Mark Dykeman provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A productive proposal</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/08/a-productive-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people I speak to agree that they would get more work done if they could eliminate the interruptions. If they could just work it would all be so much faster. Looking at it realistically, I don’t see how you can eliminate the interruptions. You can possibly reduce them but human nature is human nature [...]]]></description>
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