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	<title>The Writer&#039;s [Inner] Journey &#187; Pencil Box for the Soul</title>
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		<title>Kathryn Chetkovich writes eloquently about a very uneloquent subject: Envy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Kathryn Chetkovich&#8217;s short story, Appetites, (originally published in ZYZZYVA, in 1998, when it was featured in the Best American Short Stories series of that year.  I wished so badly to be able to craft a story like that one.  Like hers. But mostly what I felt was admiration. Feeling admiration feels different than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Journal Diaries Begin: Stephanie Stiavetti</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Stephanie Stiavetti A few weeks ago I was reading an interview with Gina Frangello on The Writer&#8217;s Inner Journey and thought to myself, &#8220;Gee, I wonder if she keeps a journal?&#8221; I&#8217;ve always been curious about the literary process for individual writer, especially those who have effectively carved out a niche for themselves. Writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: The Journal Diaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I used to be an intense journal-er. I have filled hundreds of journals (the cute ones with decorative covers) that were big enough to accommodate my somewhat large (understatement) handwriting, yet small enough to throw into my purse. But these smaller journals and my proclivity to process my feelings on the page meant that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neiman Storyboard rocks, as does this essay by Vanity Fair&#8217;s Bryan Burrough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you already receive this, but I love Neiman Storyboard (from the Neiman Foundation for journalism at Harvard) and wanted to share. I recently received an update &#8211; you can subscribe here &#8211; that included an awesome essay about craft from Vanity Fair&#8217;s Bryan Burrough. Though I like to post mostly about the process part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How about writing a manuscript in 1 month, 4 days?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s post went live (Conception, writing, not finishing, finishing) and establishing how it&#8217;s harder not to write than to push through, I saw something I wanted to share. According to an article by Shana McNally that appears in the Costco Connection (August 2010), about Rhoda Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conception, writing, not finishing, finishing: novels, memoirs, essays and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a thought-provoking article by Susanna Daniel in Slate titled: &#8220;What Took You So Long Way? The quiet hell of 10 years of novel writing.&#8221; In it she writes: &#8220;Writing is hard—writers say this all the time, and I think probably only other writers believe it. But it&#8217;s not nearly as hard, in my experience, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media and Writers: Tips for a Harmonious Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I had the honor of participating in a panel for ASJA—the American Society of Journalists and Authors—on social media. Also on the panel: Rob Gokee @robgokee (author, In the Belly of the Fail Whale: How Twitter Changed My Life in One Year) Penny Sansevieri @bookgal (Author Marketing Experts, Inc.) Tina Tessina, PhD, @tinatessina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing: The Hunter or The Gatherer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning journalist Jennifer Margulis recently wrote about The Mastadon Theory of Writing in her writing blog. I have to tell you, this post has stayed with me. (I encourage you to read it as it will give you—no pun intended—food for thought.)  The whole hunter/gatherer paradigm, as well as the debate (inside my head, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconventional and Brilliant [Writing]: Make Characters Out of Your Clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesaka Long The year Sissy Spacek portrayed Loretta Lynn in the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter, I wore out the soundtrack, and my Texas twang morphed into a mimic of a blue collar Kentucky drawl. Fortunately, I’m now much more interested in capturing those vocal nuances on the page. There’s nothing better than readers remarking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blog to Watch: &#8220;The Entangled Writer&#8221; by Novelist Cai Emmons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 03:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cai Emmons, author of The Stylist and His Mother's Son, and now, creator of The Entangled Writer was one of my early interviews [read it by clicking here!] on The Writer&#8217;s [Inner] Journey. Always thoughtful, introspective and, focused, here&#8217;s Cai&#8217;s take on blogging.] &#8220;A year or two ago I became aware that blogging might bring [...]]]></description>
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