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		<title>Social media marketing – why make it hard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re a small business owner and you have to get on that social media thing. Everybody says so. Everything you read says so. You can’t turn around without someone asking what you’re doing with social media. And you’ve looked at it. You’ve been on Twitter and Facebook and you’ve read articles and you’ve talked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a better writer &#8211; three tips</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/29/how-to-be-a-better-writer-three-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The only reason I have a job</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a bit about a lot of things but I can&#8217;t really claim to be an expert on any level except in the area of stringing words together. Although I have had positions that involved technical work (audio engineer, radio ad producer, a degree of coding for web sites), I&#8217;ve only managed to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing is acting</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/10/writing-is-acting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not big on rules or posts that say “do this” and “do that,” so this post is to simply describe how I approach writing. It might be better to say it describes what writing feels like to me. What is that approach? Exactly what the title says: writing is acting. This isn’t an idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words and how they sound</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/08/words-and-how-they-sound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The way words sound is critical to their effectiveness. How they are arranged is also critical. Language is musical; sentences are rhythmic. We don’t usually think in these terms though. But poets know it. Rappers know it. And writers of prose, if they’re good, they know it too. I’m currently reading Seth Godin’s latest book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deviled by the wind</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/05/deviled-by-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dog and I are deviled by the wind. Our devilments differ but they have the wind in common. Take note that the word “the” is important. Were we deviled by wind that would be quite another matter, one of social indelicacy. Molly is made anxious by the wind itself. I think that for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten off-the-cuff writing rules</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/22/ten-off-the-cuff-writing-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began this list last Thursday. I finished it off Saturday morning. Surprisingly, on Saturday I also came across Ten rules for writing fiction. It seems I wasn’t alone in putting together a list. (Those writers, by the way, are much better than I am so their lists should carry a good deal more weight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few links worth a look</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/20/a-few-links-worth-a-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy this week and haven&#8217;t posted anything. (The web collectively mutters, &#8220;Thank heaven!&#8221;) But I have come across a few things that caught my attention. The first is oodles of writers providing their rules for their craft and while it is in a fiction context many, if not all, are applicable to any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzled by web design and services</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/01/22/puzzled-by-web-design-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been looking at a few sites offering web design and related services and I find myself puzzled, even a bit alarmed. This is not due to what I found (though in some cases it was) but by what I did not find. I have seen absolutely no reference to content. Do the sites magically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literacy is a prerequisite for independence</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2009/09/23/literacy-is-a-prerequisite-for-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure whether I should thank David Campbell or curse him. A week or so late I came across his post Literacy and have been preoccupied by the topic ever since. Here&#8217;s what I put on Twitter and it encapsulates what my thinking has been: If you are not literate, you cede control over [...]]]></description>
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