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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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		<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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		<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>Books from my night table</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/12/i-like-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like books; I like to read. Over at Thoughtwrestling, we&#8217;ve had a week of book suggestions and/or reviews from the various contributors. I made mention a few days ago about a book I&#8217;m currently re-reading called Exuberance. I also wrote a review of it. Today it occurred to me it would be interesting to [...]]]></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>Writing involves movement</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/01/writing-involves-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post up today on Thoughtwrestling that was kind of fun to write: The physicality of creativity. The topic theme was to describe how we do our best creative work. It was interesting because normally when I write, I just write. This time I was paying attention to what I actually do when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happens next?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/11/what-happens-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few things as frightening for the creator of something than, “What happens next?” This is because the next thing had better be good – at least as good as what preceded it. That’s what the audience expects. That’s why they ask, “What happens next?” A great recent example of this in action is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lose the model: everything is a story</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/08/lose-the-model-everything-is-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 13:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative people start out with a model in their heads of how they will be creative. It’s a template of how their creativity will manifest itself. One of the most important steps they make in their development is losing that model – throwing it aside. Of course, that leaves a vacuum and a vacuum wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/05/publish-or-perish-the-lessons-of-scheherazade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scheherazade told one thousand and one stories over one thousand and one nights for good reason – to stay alive. Her chief lesson is simple: publish or perish. Actually, in her case, it was also publish and perish – maybe. It wasn’t enough for her to simply tell a tale. It had to be good. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing is always linear and logical</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/22/writing-is-always-linear-and-logical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing is always linear and it always goes from here to there, beginning to end. This is true of fiction and non-fiction, novels and manuals, all writing. It may not seem that way in its final presented form. Many books and movies are presented in a chaotic, time-jumbled fashion where it may begin with the [...]]]></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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