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		<title>Why &#8220;keeping up&#8221; can hold us back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of this article, by Julie Bosman, in the New York Times: Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking made me itchy and anxious—particularly this quote: “Everybody’s doing a little more,” said Mr. [Lee] Child (a British author), who is published by Delacorte Press, part of Random House. “It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Writing Lucky Charms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take these gems, creative lucky charms, with you throughout your day and when you sit down (or stand up, or get in bed, etc) to write. [m] I can’t force the flow—it will come when it’s ready. Liz Holzemer I approach creative panic attacks the same way I cope with getting the flu: I surrender, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Surrendered Writer vs The Controlling One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like I can’t control what other people do, sometimes I can’t control which direction my writing is headed. I feel so powerless, no—impotent. Though I shouldn&#8217;t. Because I have no business trying to control. Just like living beings, my words have their own footprints and fingerprints, and I want to remember to respect that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: writing after babies arrive: Craig Mattes and Megan Mattes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[stuck/unstuck series]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was the hardest part about getting back to writing after your kids were born, and did you have to do anything special to get back into the swing? Did something change? Get easier/harder? Why do you suppose this happened to you? In this installment of stuck/unstuck, I wanted to find out how the professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The (New) 5-Question [Author] Interview: Allison Winn Scotch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writer talks honestly and openly about the beauty of writing when the stakes are really high, writing big versus writing quietly, and the intense and focused work of promotion and publicity. ♦ Allison Winn Scotch is the author of The Department of Lost and Found, and the New York Times Bestseller, Time of My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Kristin Thiel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[stuck/unstuck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you&#8217;ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: Back to writing after baby arrives: Yuvi Zalkow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was the hardest part about getting back to writing after your kids were born, and did you have to do anything special to get back into the swing? Did something change? Get easier/harder? Why do you suppose this happened to you?  In this installment of stuck/unstuck, I asked Yuvi Zalkow to answer this question. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Denise Schipani</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When you consciously think about being creative, making something, writing something, it’s scary, and it’s my personal theory that this is where writer’s block comes from: the fear.” —Denise Schipani ♦ Denise Schipani is the author of the brand new Mean Moms Rule, but her writing has long appeared in many national publications including American Baby, Better Homes &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Steve Almond</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you&#8217;ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Lidia Yuknavitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you&#8217;ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]]]></description>
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