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		<title>Listen to the silence and pay attention</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/12/listen-to-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noise is a common complaint about social media. We often say there is too much worthless chatter. When we say this, we’re complaining about content. It’s of no value to us; it’s all noise. For people like myself who work in social media, we’re usually referring to the tsunami of tweets and posts and updates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual storytelling: know your medium</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/09/visual-storytelling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a 30 second ad I&#8217;d like you watch &#8212; but with the sound off. You&#8217;ve probably seen the ad before; it has been on TV enough and all over the Internet. Whether you have seen it or not, I&#8217;d still ask you to look at it again without any sound. I&#8217;ll tell you [...]]]></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</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>The only reason I have a job</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/09/the-only-reason-i-have-a-job/</link>
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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>Authenticity and free speech</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/07/authenticity-and-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Jonathan Fields had an interesting post titled, &#8220;Is social media killing authenticity?&#8221; I found the question intriguing partly because I think the answer is likely yes, at least in the sense Fields is talking about it (as in, people reporting words heard taken out of context). I had asked a similar question in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain explains stories and social media</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/03/mark-twain-explains-stories-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to write a post titled, “How to write a story.” However, a quick Google search showed that Mark Twain had beaten me to it. How wonderful is that? He has a piece titled, “How to tell a story&#8221; (see note at bottom). In a nutshell: don&#8217;t over-tell. In terms of story and business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversaries, vocabularies and why</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/19/anniversaries-vocabularies-and-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 11:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite questions to ask myself is, “Why?” This brings me to my other site, Piddleville, which began life ten years ago, May 17, 2000. That’s the day I registered the domain. It’s two days late but, Happy anniversary Piddleville! But back to why. This is what Piddleville’s current manifestation is really all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guidelines vs. rules: bamboozled by bullets</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/14/guidelines-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be able to read. You have to know how to read. In other words, it requires some critical thinking. The internet is a good example, especially when it comes to the difference between guidelines and rules. A lot of online material concerns ways to do things: tips, how to’s, and [...]]]></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</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>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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