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		<title>This is what I have been doing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/20/post-about-not-posting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems wrong to say I haven&#8217;t posted anything this week because I&#8217;ve been busy &#8212; it&#8217;s Tuesday! But in many ways this is more like Thursday to me since I spent the weekend working. And a lot of that work is in the half-baked stage. But some isn&#8217;t &#8230; Creative energy I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/16/efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” - The Kinks - On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in The Shallows</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“According to an extensive 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, most Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even three of the [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3220</guid>
		<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>Amazed by how much more there is to know</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel better now &#8212; and at least for now. I finally changed something that has been bothering me for a long time. My header use to say Writelife and below it, &#8220;Musings on the craft of writing, technology, social media and whatever else comes along.&#8221; Apart from being a bit pretentious with words like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing the stairs</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/03/facing-the-stairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post doesn’t have any tips or suggestions that will help you to solve problems or engage your creative side. It’s really just an observation. It&#8217;s about something everyone will inevitably encounter in their life: the daunting stairs you’ll have to climb to get to where you want to go – and what happens once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No one cares about your brand</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/30/no-one-cares-about-your-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a theory and it goes like this: no one cares about your brand. This is because no one cares about brands, period. They care about people. Let me give you an example of this. In 1997 James Cameron released his movie Titanic. It was wildly successful. It was a big movie and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This world will amaze you</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/22/this-world-will-amaze-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from walking the dog in the park. While there, we met a guy. We stopped and chatted. He told me his story. I now feel exuberant. His story contained joy and tragedy; points of recognition; coincidence; verve and laughter. It amazed me. It goes like this: If you’ve read my posts [...]]]></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>Arriving where we started</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/20/arriving-where-we-started/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally posted on another blog, this post was published Sept. 25, 2005 &#8211; or earlier. But it&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day and I thought it appropriate.) It has not been the best of years for quite a few people I know. I’ve been struck by how many of them have lost someone in their lives, in most [...]]]></description>
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