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		<title>10 Ways Twitter Can Make You A Better Writer.</title>
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Here are ten things writers need to do that are fostered by the constraints of Twitter and other micro-blogging apps: 

Evaluate yourself as a writer. Who are you? What topics interest you? What do you want to express &#8211; in this tweet and over time?  If you haven&#8217;t asked yourself such questions starting out, you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Tips to Go From Blog to Book.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think your blog can be the next bestseller? Here are some tips for aspiring writers from editor Iris Blisi:
1. Consider your category. The web is a goldmine for humor writers in particular. “If you’re funny and your voice is unique, people will come to it,” says Patrick Mulligan, editor and blog scout.
2. Pay heed to tradition even in a digital environment. The best way to catch the attention of an agent or editor? “A good, ]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Great Greeting Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by Phil Bolsta, offering the secrets learned in his career as a writer for major greeting card companies: 9 rules, 8 insights, 11 business tips and 16 techniques.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Learn From My Mistake &#8211; Zadie Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can't tell you how many times I've sat backstage with a line of novelists at some festival, all of us with red pens in hand, frantically editing our published novels into fit form so that we might go onstage and read from them.  It's an unfortuante thing, but it turns out that the perfect state of mind to edit your own novel is two years after it's published, ten minutes before you go onstage at a literary festival.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Learn From My Mistake&#8230; Stephen King</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of typing directly onto the keyboard, Stephen King returned to writing his first draft in longhand with Dreamcatcher and Bag of Bones, "because I wanted to see what would happen," he says.
"It changed some things.  Most of all, it made me ]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A productive, prolific creative life is always underwritten by good planning. Having witnessed and worked with hundreds of writers, I have yet to meet an exception.  The challenge is to put in place a scaffolding that enables your writing to flow, minimising your chances of suffering creative angst, procrastination or block -- without being too prescriptive or confining.  Planning takes two forms: ]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Beginner Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer, not just a hack, you've got to make writing top of your heap. It has to be, or become, more important to you than two of the following: money, family or friends.  It definitely has to be more important than TV.  You've got to do the work. Lay down sentences and paragraphs, like an athlete lays down miles. Put words through your fingers, like a musician drums scales. Go on your metaphorical knees to the mystery of inspiration, like a priest before an altar.]]></description>
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		<title>Creatives: Transform or Perish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of change, by definition, encompass destruction and creation.   And we're supposed to be creatives, right? So let's have some creative thinking, not just on the content of our creations but on the marketing and distribution of them too.
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		<title>Writers: Are You Cringing Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Miller said, towards the end of his working life, that he had never written a good thing that had not made him blush -- and that he didn't think anyone else had either. Here's why.]]></description>
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		<title>F-R-E-E-Writing Tutorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[F-R-E-E-Writing does not aim to be linear or logical, it does not aim for anything -- other than to be done.
Each F-R-E-E-Writing session is a new journey without a map, in which you just write whatever it is you have to say at that moment in time. When we allow words to be written in this way, they have tremendous energy.   ]]></description>
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