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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>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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		<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>How to be a better writer &#8211; three tips</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/29/how-to-be-a-better-writer-three-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how to become a better writer: 1) write 2) read 3) listen They seem obvious, at least to me. Especially the first one. How does anyone improve a skill except by practice? Whether they&#8217;re athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, doctors &#8212; whatever &#8212; people get good at something by doing it. A lot. It&#8217;s the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday is publishing day</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/22/tuesday-is-publishing-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what stars align on Tuesdays but it seems to be the day when a good deal of my writing gets published. It has happened often; it has happened again today. First, I have a review of Nick Carr&#8217;s The Shallows on the Thoughtwrestling blog today. I also have a brief piece on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real road trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post led to an even more interesting discussion. On Thoughtwrestling, Rebecca posted “Zen and the Road Trip Book,” her take on Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM), a book from 1974 that has lingered for many over the years. It’s a road trip book that isn’t about a road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing involves movement</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/01/writing-involves-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post up today on Thoughtwrestling that was kind of fun to write: The physicality of creativity. The topic theme was to describe how we do our best creative work. It was interesting because normally when I write, I just write. This time I was paying attention to what I actually do when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing and morning coffee</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/31/writing-and-morning-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 14:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<title>Principles not rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a wonderful quote from Robert McKee in reference to stories. It is this: &#8220;Story is about principles, not rules.&#8221; He explains the difference by saying a rule tells you what to; a principle simply says, &#8220;This works.&#8221; The first is usually an absolute, though nothing is ever absolute. The second is just good [...]]]></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>Looking ahead</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/23/looking-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was less active here at Writelife because I was busy with, work that pays the bills lovely weather requiring me to do outdoor work Every so often, this happens! I haven&#8217;t been inactive, however. I actually got quite a bit of writing done for others and have several posts in the &#8220;half-finished&#8221; stage. [...]]]></description>
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