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		<title>Canada, singular and plural</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/07/01/canada-singular-and-plural/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally published July 1, 2010 on Thoughtwrestling as &#8220;The Canadas.&#8221;) Canada is both problem and solution. It’s an ongoing exercise in creativity and problem solving. Sometimes it works out well; sometimes not. And it’s really, really big! Its lessons are big too. When it comes to solving problems and being creative, it provides the biggest [...]]]></description>
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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>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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		<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>About the other fiction of Disrupted Lives</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/09/25/about-the-other-fiction-of-disrupted-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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>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 Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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 Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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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