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	<title>The Writer&#039;s [Inner] Journey &#187; The Recovering Creative</title>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/05/exactly-why-keeping-up-can-hold-you-me-back.html' addthis:title='Why &#8220;keeping up&#8221; can hold us back ' ><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 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. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/05/the-surrendered-writer-vs-the-controlling-one.html' addthis:title='The Surrendered Writer vs The Controlling One ' ><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>stuck/unstuck: writing after babies arrive: Craig Mattes and Megan Mattes</title>
		<link>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/04/stuckunstuck-writing-after-babies-arrive-craig-mattes-and-megan-mattes.html#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/04/stuckunstuck-writing-after-babies-arrive-craig-mattes-and-megan-mattes.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: writing after babies arrive: Craig Mattes and Megan Mattes ' ><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>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/04/stuckunstuck-men-undressed-contributors-talk-internal-conflict-and-writing-kristin-thiel.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Kristin Thiel ' ><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>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. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/04/stuckunstuck-back-to-writing-after-baby-arrives-yuvi-zalkow.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: Back to writing after baby arrives: Yuvi Zalkow ' ><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>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/04/stuckunstuck-men-undressed-contributors-talk-internal-conflict-and-writing-steve-almond.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Steve Almond ' ><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>stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Lidia Yuknavitch</title>
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		<comments>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-men-undressed-contributors-talk-internal-conflict-and-writing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:39:46 +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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-men-undressed-contributors-talk-internal-conflict-and-writing.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Lidia Yuknavitch ' ><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>When journaling no longer helps the writer create&#8230;and write</title>
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		<comments>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/when-journaling-no-longer-helps-the-writer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite people (and writers), Kim Hooper, has a gorgeous meditation/essay on her site about leaving behind the [kind of] love relationship she had with her journals. Kind of like breaking up, when the &#8220;other,&#8221; in this case, the journaling process, no longer nurtures the relationship in the same. Still, it can be [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/when-journaling-no-longer-helps-the-writer.html' addthis:title='When journaling no longer helps the writer create&#8230;and write ' ><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>stuck/unstuck: Debbie Koenig &amp; &#8220;motherhood as an opportunity to break into new markets&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-motherhood-as-an-opportunity-to-break-into-new-markets.html#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-motherhood-as-an-opportunity-to-break-into-new-markets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[stuck/unstuck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Koenig is a food writer, author and blogger (and mom), with a new book, Parents Need to Eat Too (Morrow). She also the creator of Words to Eat By, her site about feeding the entire family. Here’s what she had to say about writing after her son’s arrival: Once I made it safely out of the first [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-motherhood-as-an-opportunity-to-break-into-new-markets.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: Debbie Koenig &#38; &#8220;motherhood as an opportunity to break into new markets&#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>stuck/unstuck: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett &amp; writing after baby arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I’m launching the first of a new feature: the stuck/unstuck series for writers. Many people I know who are writers have young children. Many of them are concerned about getting back to their writing after a baby is born, or when a child is growing up and demanding more time, or when a teen is [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2012/03/stuckunstuck-writing-after-baby-arrives.html' addthis:title='stuck/unstuck: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett &#38; writing after baby arrives ' ><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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