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		<title>Time to Buy An Amazon Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by Joanna Penn, arguing passionately in favour of ebooks. Ebook sales have been steadily growing over the last 2 years and those of us who converted early are almost entirely ebook consumers now. For authors, the global ebook sales market has meant we can sell direct to customers and every month receive a cheque [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tormentor Mentors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certainly, the fact that no money changed hands in the past did not guarantee a positive experience for protégés.  Having parried Yeats’s sexual attentions and refused his offer of marriage, Iseult Gonne moved on to a new champion, Ezra Pound, nurturer of  the work of a remarkably diverse selection of writers, including James Joyce, TS Eliot and Ernst Hemingway.

Pound took Gonne’s talent seriously and offered her excellent advice in his ebullient way, but again the guidance was compromised by a desire to seduce her. Sexually, he had more success than Yeats but nothing of artistic significance emerged from the liaison]]></description>
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		<title>Wise Old Bird Lit</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2011/09/wiseoldbirdlit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chick lit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only description of such books that I could find was 'Hen Lit'. And that's a coop I'm not hopping into.

Indeed, rather than see this label catch on (it being just the kind of label that does), I'd like to suggest an alternative.  Yes, I hereby found a new literary genre. ]]></description>
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		<title>Writing My New Novel Online</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2011/06/online-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you like reading fiction? Over the next year or so, as I write my new novel, I&#8217;m going to be sharing it episode by episode here in the blog. I&#8217;m really excited about this experiment &#8212; seeing how many of you choose to read along and seeing what effect writing it as a serial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Beautiful Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing Down The Bones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a writer and you haven&#8217;t read Natalie Goldberg, you are missing out. Bigtime. Her classic Writing Down The Bones as packed with wisdom as any book ever bound. One of the texts that creative writing teachers turn to again and again, its concept of writing as spiritual practice has transcended that field to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Intention. Know Your ABCDEs</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2010/10/creative-intention-know-your-abcdes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[stages of the creative process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing to understand about the first stage of conscious creation &#8211; creative intention &#8211; is the mental and emotional context within which you are setting your intention. This can be summarised as your ABCDEs, the: Attitudes Beliefs Concepts Denials Expectations that you are bringing to the project. These are not set; they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking With A Mental Squint.</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2010/10/looking-with-a-mental-squint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becoming A Poet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once &#8216;the very wish Partook of the sublime.&#8217; Then tell me how! Don&#8217;t put me off With your &#8216;another time&#8217;!&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;And would you be a poet Before you&#8217;ve been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Ireland.</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2010/10/reading-ireland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland used to like its writers dead. When I was growing up there, a young reader for whom &#8220;Now Read On&#8221; were the three most thrilling words in the language, I knew that almost every author who wrote a worthwhile word in my country had been censored, even hounded out. The only revered writers were the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F-R-E-E-Writing Tutorial Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2010/08/f-r-e-e-writing-first-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often we write what feels like garbage for days and, then, like a flower from compost, something that seems significant emerges. But we don’t work for that. We work only to do it. Because when we read back, we often find that what we thought was significant was banal... while we sailed past what now seems like a true revelation.]]></description>
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		<title>A letter from John Steinbeck.</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2010/08/a-letter-from-john-steinbeck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Short Story Writer: &#8220;Although it must be a thousand years ago that I sat in a class in story writing at Stanford, I remember the experience very clearly. I was bright-eyed and bushy-brained and prepared to absorb the secret formula for writing good short stories, even great short stories. This illusion was canceled very [...]]]></description>
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