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	<title>The Writer&#039;s [Inner] Journey &#187; The Recovering Creative</title>
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		<title>&#8220;The Writing Class That&#8217;s Like Therapy&#8221; With Lynda Barry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever read any of Lynda Barry&#8217;s books? You should. Really. The Greatest of Marlys is one of them. I have Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review and host of KPFK&#8217;s Biblocracy to thank for introducing me (and the rest of our CNF class at UCI extension more&#8211;way more&#8211;than a decade ago&#8230;so thank [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/10/the-writing-class-thats-like-therapy-with-lynda-barry.html' addthis:title='&#8220;The Writing Class That&#8217;s Like Therapy&#8221; With Lynda Barry ' ><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>Writing Anxiety of the Day: Memoir or Novel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever get anxious about deciding when a manuscript should be written as a memoir or a novel? If so, how have you made the decision and move forward? Do you jump right in, start writing and let the process decide for you? How do you know what&#8217;s right? Writing nonfiction feels so much [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/10/writing-anxiety-of-the-day-memoir-or-novel.html' addthis:title='Writing Anxiety of the Day: Memoir or Novel? ' ><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>It&#8217;s Not About the Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[prosperity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alisa Bowman has begun The Karma Project, and her recent post about groceries triggered a deeper realization in me that even though we talk about money, obsess about money, read books on how to earn more of it, rant about taxes that want to take it away&#8230;none of it is, in fact, about the money. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/09/its-not-about-the-money.html' addthis:title='It&#8217;s Not About the Money ' ><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>Novelist Nicole Krauss writes compellingly about overcoming doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m listening to THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss. I. LOVE. IT. And so, I started wondering about the author&#8217;s process. I went to her website. There, under &#8220;Press,&#8221; she talks in part about just that, her writing process and her thought process about writing. Under the heading: &#8220;On Doubt,&#8221; which is a five-graph [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/08/novelist-nicole-krauss-writes-compellingly-about-overcoming-doubt.html' addthis:title='Novelist Nicole Krauss writes compellingly about overcoming doubt ' ><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: Getting unstuck after rejection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hidden gems I find most interesting about this blog is the fact that I get to see the search terms that drive people to The Writer&#8217;s [Inner] Journey. Once in a while something comes across that has nothing and everything to do with the inner journey of writing. That search term was [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/08/writers-getting-unstuck-after-rejection.html' addthis:title='Writers: Getting unstuck after rejection ' ><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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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>What we talk about [to ourselves] when we talk about writing*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever said any of these things to yourself? &#8220;I did the revision which improved the tightness but muddled the arc.&#8221; &#8220;I loved the first draft but must say that even though this is painful, the soon-to-be finished product in the form of [fill in the blank: essay, article, story, poem, book, etc] will [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/07/what-we-talk-about-to-ourselves-when-we-talk-about-writing.html' addthis:title='What we talk about [to ourselves] when we talk about 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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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Part Money Study, Part The Recovering Creative: What Is Fair In Wanting and Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, let me ask you&#8230; Ever heard someone complain about the high price of another’s services then moan about how a client doesn’t want to pay him or her a fair rate? Then the next thing you know she’s out looking for a bargain because, she says, “I simply won’t pay this much for that”—whatever [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/04/part-money-study-part-the-recovering-creative-what-is-fair-in-wanting-and-money.html' addthis:title='Part Money Study, Part The Recovering Creative: What Is Fair In Wanting and Money? ' ><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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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Author, sell thyself&#8221; from Salon: Is your writing belief system working for you?</title>
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		<comments>http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/03/author-sell-thyself-from-salon-is-your-writing-belief-system-working-for-you.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from Salon, &#8220;Author, sell thyself&#8221; written by Laura Miller, made me realize &#8230; That the shift to authors really having to kick it into overdrive selling said self is kind of like what happens in corporate jobs when things out there (cue hands moving in a nebulous manner), in the world, appear &#8220;tight.&#8221; [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/03/author-sell-thyself-from-salon-is-your-writing-belief-system-working-for-you.html' addthis:title='&#8220;Author, sell thyself&#8221; from Salon: Is your writing belief system working for you? ' ><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>&#8220;Me and My Writing Shadow&#8221; &#8211; Tapping the inner journey a la The New Yorker &amp; KCRW</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essay, by Dana Goodyear, starts: &#8220;The Writer was in despair.&#8221; The essay is called &#8220;Hollywood Shadows.&#8221; Read the rest in The New Yorker. You will love it. And then, I was driving to LA, listening to KCRW, and I heard one of my fave short segments, &#8220;Martini Shot,&#8221; by veteran screenwriter Rob Long. He was [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://writersinnerjourney.com/2011/03/me-and-my-writing-shadow-tapping-the-inner-journey-a-la-the-new-yorker-kcrw.html' addthis:title='&#8220;Me and My Writing Shadow&#8221; &#8211; Tapping the inner journey a la The New Yorker &#38; KCRW ' ><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>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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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/2010/12/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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