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	<title>The Writer&#039;s [Inner] Journey &#187; Pencil Box for the Soul</title>
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		<title>Conception on the Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Wallen If a woman is trying to get pregnant, maybe taking fertility drugs, checking her ovulation cycle and temperature at regular intervals, or even getting the painful injections of fertility drugs, it would seem insensitive to ask her “So, pregnant yet?” But no one finds this same kind of sensitivity necessary when a [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/01/conception-on-the-page.html' addthis:title='Conception on the Page ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Writers: What if you could earn a full-time salary, but work only part-time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, when I think about my own inner-writing journey, I’m drawn to the creative — creative nonfiction, fiction and — all that falls into those categories. And yet. In order to have the time to pursue my inner-writing journey during the day, I’ve sought ways to generate income while working less than full-time. That is, working [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/09/writers-what-if-you-could-earn-a-full-time-salary-but-work-only-part-time.html' addthis:title='Writers: What if you could earn a full-time salary, but work only part-time? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Intuition: That little voice is always there, waiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; To access more about the artist, Sister Karol Jackowski, please click HERE.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/06/intuitionvoices-sister-karol-jackowski.html' addthis:title='Intuition: That little voice is always there, waiting ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Relationship conundrum: The fiction writer and her muse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feeding the Writer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kim Hooper In writing, there is much discussion of “the muse.” Who is it? Do we wait for him/her/it to appear, or go to work anyway? Does the fact that we talk to this muse make us schizophrenic? When I think of my muse, I think of a very lazy queen, sitting atop her [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/05/relationship-conundrum-the-fiction-writer-and-her-muse.html' addthis:title='Relationship conundrum: The fiction writer and her muse ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Zadie Smith offers her 10 tenets of writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick note: Zadie Smith&#8217;s On Beauty is one of my favorite novels (have you read or listened?). The Guardian online published her 10 tenets (they call them rules) for writing. I appreciate, for example, no. 6 ["Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won't make your writing any better than it is."] Oh, [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/04/zadie-smith-offers-her-10-tenets-for-writing.html' addthis:title='Zadie Smith offers her 10 tenets of writing ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>2 views: &#8220;Writing well is probably going to hurt&#8221; vs &#8220;marching you through the writer&#8217;s life&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pencil Box for the Soul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no shoulds in life, but if you&#8217;re writing today, then do yourself a favor and read both the posts I&#8217;m linking to here. It doesn&#8217;t matter the order. In a way, the two posts reinforce each other. If you write memoir or personal essay&#8211;or even fiction&#8211;(or, as a matter of fact, if you&#8217;re [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/04/2-views-writing-well-is-probably-going-to-hurt-vs-marching-you-through-the-writers-life.html' addthis:title='2 views: &#8220;Writing well is probably going to hurt&#8221; vs &#8220;marching you through the writer&#8217;s life&#8221; ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming journal entries into essays [that sell]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Paturel I primarily use journals to vent. Writing is a way to release my emotions, understand where they stem from and ultimately grow from them. Essays provide me with a similar cathartic outlet. I use them to delve deeper into an issue and view it from a different perspective. Perhaps not surprisingly, many [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/03/the-journal-diaries-and-transforming-entries-into-essays-that-sell-amy-paturel.html' addthis:title='Transforming journal entries into essays [that sell] ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Mindset for Editing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, on Twitter, I tweeted: Reading @Jordanrosenfeld &#8216;s MAKE A SCENE. One of the few books I&#8217;ve found on technique that is also a page turner. #fridayreads Today, I ask the author of MAKE A SCENE, Jordan Rosenfeld about scene, how it works, and how we writers can to be at one with it. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/03/jordan-rosenfeld-on-writing-the-scene-fictions-magic-ingredient.html' addthis:title='The Mindset for Editing ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Change your thoughts and you might just change your writing life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this thought-provoking, to-the-point essay, syndicated food columnist, cookbook author and chef Monica Bhide writes: “As a writer in an industry that is rapidly changing (I checked and half the publications I used to write for are gone or going away), it is easy to focus on what is not there.” Of course, focusing on [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/02/change-your-thoughts-and-you-might-just-change-your-writing-life.html' addthis:title='Change your thoughts and you might just change your writing life ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Goldberg on writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Johnston of Urban Muse Writer had a great interview with Natalie Goldberg this week. Click over to Susan&#8217;s blog to read it. Then set your timers and start free writing. If you don&#8217;t know what that means, immediately—after reading the interview—go out and get yourself one of Natalie&#8217;s books on writing, among them: Writing Down [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/02/natalie-goldberg-like-an-old-friend-from-far-away.html' addthis:title='Natalie Goldberg on writing ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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