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		<title>Plagiarism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then you hit a professional milestone. I remember teaching my first class as a professor. I stood in front of a room full of undergraduate students and started talking and the weirdest thing happened, they started taking notes. People were taking notes on what I was saying!! I&#8217;ll be honest, I totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Depth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 23:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great characters have depth, real depth. The story you tell between the two covers of a book is just one piece of that character&#8217;s &#8220;life.&#8221; It is a moment in a fictional existence and that existence needs to feel so real to readers it extends beyond the confines of your story. Let&#8217;s take the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers have to read.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just read the title and said &#8220;Duh.&#8221; It&#8217;s ok, you can admit it. But seriously hear me out for a minute. Of course writers read. If you didn&#8217;t read books and love them, then you wouldn&#8217;t want to write one, would you? (Oh you don&#8217;t read? But you want to write a book? Ok, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow up to First Chapters have to Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found a very cool website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/chapterone.htm You can go online and read the first chapters of books the Washington Post has recently reviewed. What an awesome resource. Check it out and tell me what you think! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>First chapters have to rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading a great book right now. It&#8217;s called Garlic and Sapphires: the Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise. It is a wonderful example of how to write a memoir, so if you are thinking of penning one yourself, I recommend this book as an example of one done really well. But onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving a Bear Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage, Fear and Motivation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for all the comments and questions lately. It&#8217;s been exciting to see all the traffic on the site. It&#8217;s been almost a year since I posted. A YEAR! Snap, that&#8217;s a long time. I thought I owed something in the way of an explanation. So here goes. I hate bears. No, that&#8217;s putting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is in the air.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confession &#8211; I struggle to describe setting. I know, shameful. But for some reason setting is hard for me. I can create a pretty dynamic world in my mind, but it&#8217;s challenging to translate that onto the page. It always feels flatter to me in black and white. In a lot of ways setting is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research matters.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting comments lately. Thanks for posting your ideas. When I started this I had some hopes of being able to respond to comments, but the reality of my life is not supporting that possibility, so instead I&#8217;m hoping that sometimes I can use the comments to inspire a new post. So here goes&#8230; My current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Topics &#8211; Brainstorm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8221; say write what you know. I agree with them. There&#8217;s a lot less research if you can start with something you know. There&#8217;s good stuff in my brain, but it feels trapped in there, so I have to coax it out. For me brainstorming is one of the best way to do that. Want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spammers of the world beware&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear spammers, I&#8217;ve been getting your comments and I have a question. Do icky spam comments on random blogs generate a lot of revenue for the adult film industry? If they do then I applaud your strategy, as you are remarkably persistent. If they don&#8217;t then I recommend, with all seriousness, that you get a [...]]]></description>
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