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		<title>The problem with content</title>
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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>Why social media loves dogmatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a day goes by where we don’t see tweets and post headlines telling us “you must” or “you need” and similar dogmatic injunctions. Is it because we like being told what to do? Is it because the authors are megalomaniacs? No. We write headlines like these because the statistics tells us they work. Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intersection: I reveal what it is I do</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/10/01/intersection-i-reveal-what-it-is-i-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1093;&#1086;&#1083;&#1086;&#1074;&#1080; &#1075;&#1072;&#1088;&#1085;&#1080;&#1090;&#1091;&#1088;&#1080;You never know where ideas and help are going to come from or when. Yesterday I paused from working and found two posts that helped me discover something I’d been looking for a long time. What was I looking for? What it is I do. For me the most painful, almost unbearable kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I don&#8217;t like about other things</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/03/what-i-dont-like-about-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m being diplomatic when I write that I don&#8217;t like other things. The truth is that I hate other things. They just get in the way! What are other things? That&#8217;s easy: they&#8217;re all the things you have to do when what you really want to do is something else. They&#8217;re things like your job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a better writer &#8211; three tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how to become a better writer: 1) write 2) read 3) listen They seem obvious, at least to me. Especially the first one. How does anyone improve a skill except by practice? Whether they&#8217;re athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, doctors &#8212; whatever &#8212; people get good at something by doing it. A lot. It&#8217;s the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking ahead</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/23/looking-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was less active here at Writelife because I was busy with, work that pays the bills lovely weather requiring me to do outdoor work Every so often, this happens! I haven&#8217;t been inactive, however. I actually got quite a bit of writing done for others and have several posts in the &#8220;half-finished&#8221; stage. [...]]]></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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		<title>Publish and you may perish anyway</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/10/publish-and-you-may-perish-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a loud voice, it said a few words. It said, &#8220;You gotta take a chance and you gotta pay, boy. You cannot win if you do not play.&#8221; &#8211; Steve Forbert – Just because you get something out there into the world, it doesn’t follow that anyone will want it. That’s the discouraging [...]]]></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 Wren</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>Recognizing voice recognition</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/03/recognizing-voice-recognition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 12:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit late perhaps, I have finally seen the value to me of voice recognition software. It has its obvious value to those with various disabilities but it also has value to those who do not. Basically, until now I had been stuck in the rut of thinking simply in terms of using it to [...]]]></description>
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