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		<title>What is the point of success?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/13/what-is-the-point-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success is a moving target. It’s a cloud formation never the same one day to the next – even one minute to the next. What on earth is it? I sent off a question today that asked, “Have we misunderstood the purpose of business and career success? Have we made business/career success an end rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Kurt Vonnegut defined social media:connection precedes communication*</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are loads of books and gazillions of web sites and blogs on social media. You could spend the rest of your life reading about it – the data, the theories, the what-have-you. But if you really want to understand social media you can cut to the chase and read just one guy: Kurt Vonnegut. [...]]]></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 Wren</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>Books that have influenced me</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/20/books-that-have-influenced-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just quickly created a page of books that have influenced me. In fact, while it&#8217;s page name is &#8220;Books&#8221; the secondary headline is Books that have influenced me. It&#8217;s a short list &#8212; just five. I think of all of them as related to writing though only one is specifically about writing. Most are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few links worth a look</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</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>Road construction on Writelife</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/14/road-construction-on-writelife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday Writelife will, &#8220;&#8230; be a bit of a schmozzle for the next day or two.&#8221; I&#8217;m experimenting with a few things, such as: trying Disqus for comments &#8212; just to see if there is any value in it setting up Google for site search &#8212; because I&#8217;m not thrilled with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respecting the work</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/12/respecting-the-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work is necessary in order to be complete. We tend to think of work only in terms of reward – an income – that allows us to fulfill other of life’s necessities and, if we can, enjoy our lives more fully with some of its luxuries. But work itself is a necessity and for that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to be on the radio</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/09/i-want-to-be-on-the-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is as easy as it appears – even talking. We’ve likely all encountered variations of this comedic scene: someone looks like one thing but their voice doesn’t fit our expectations. Let’s say there is a huge football lineman who towers over us yet his voice is high-pitched and squeaky. He may even have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The yin and yang of communications</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/08/the-yin-and-yang-of-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communications is made up of two halves, something like yin and yang. I call them the positive side and the negative side. In using a word like “negative” we immediately think it is something bad. But it isn’t. Both sides can be done well or poorly so the positive side, done wrong, can be very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does Seth Godin do?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/05/what-does-seth-godin-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been following Seth Godin’s blog for years. I’ve been reading his books for years. (I think I started with Permission Marketing.) However, as he himself describes in a different context, we often experience a dip and so, as with anything that goes on over a long period of time, it waxes and wanes. Thus [...]]]></description>
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