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		<title>Storytelling &#8212; get out of the way</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/14/storytelling-get-out-of-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the indifference of weather, he shot the child and kept walking. I’ve mentioned before that far too often we’re focused on writing rather than storytelling. I refer to writing because that is what I do, but this is applicable to all forms of storytelling – written, verbal, film, etc. Our writing gets in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefits and hazards of description</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/10/29/benefits-and-hazards-of-description/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description in a story can be a tricky thing. With words, it paints an image in a reader’s mind. However, done to excess it puts a reader to sleep. I call them word pictures and, as with all pictures, some are good and some are not. As an example, you might write something like, “There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always fascinated by story</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/10/27/always-fascinated-by-story-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is a repost of something I wrote in 2006. I have long since finished reading the book referred to. In fact, I&#8217;ve reread it since. It&#8217;s very good. By the way, this is not really a review; it&#8217;s a first impressions piece.) I&#8217;m currently reading Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master storyteller &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/10/16/master-storyteller-robert-louis-stevenson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want someone to model yourself after as a storyteller, go to Robert Louis Stevenson. Now that guy could tell stories. Many writers, like myself, make the mistake of writing. I’ve done that and still find myself doing it. We need to stop writing and get on with telling the story. It’s the story [...]]]></description>
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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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3294</guid>
		<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 Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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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