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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>Publish and flourish: cause and effect</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/25/publish-and-flourish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final lesson I take from the story of Scheherazade’s telling of The One Thousand and One Nights is that you can change the dictum “publish or perish” to &#8220;publish and flourish.&#8221; As John Barth points out in Getting Oriented, the relationship that develops between Scheherazade and the king Shahryar is productive in more ways [...]]]></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</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2834</guid>
		<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>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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		<title>Perfect gets you killed: know when to let go</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/07/perfect-gets-you-killed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 10:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my post Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade I listed six lessons, the last of which was, “Perfect gets you killed.” I don’t think I explained what I meant very well so let me try now. Most creative people I know spend a great deal of time editing their work: revising and tweaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers are confidence men</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/15/writers-are-confidence-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers are essentially flimflam artists. That doesn&#8217;t sound very good. It certainly doesn&#8217;t sound as if writers are trustworthy. However, if you consider that everyone is a flimflam artist of sorts, you can see writers have, or should have, one thing other people do not: an awareness of themselves as flimflam artists. (Dictionaries refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we see dictates how we see it</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/22/what-we-see-dictates-how-we-see-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=1925</guid>
		<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>What’s wrong with being silly?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/09/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-being-silly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. - Okakura Kazuko - Why is a certain kind of writing always assumed to be for children? I’m thinking about writing that would include writers like Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein. It’s writing characterized by silliness and humour. I write quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words and how they sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<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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