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	<title>Creative Writing. Independent Publishing. Creative Living.</title>
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	<itunes:subtitle>from The Creative Intelligence Blog</itunes:subtitle>
	<itunes:summary>Go Creative! It\&#039;s Your Native State.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Go Creative.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[#poem #poetry #inspirations I wish we could flow/ as oceans tide,/ swelling with joy at our/ pulse to unfurl. I feel we should roll/ as planets turn,/ dark days and seasons held/ level with light. I sense we can grow/ as mountains rise/ from stresses that set them./ Rock steady. Free. I intend to go/ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Wifi Hog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often a creative freelancer just has to get out of the house. Usually to get in some caffeine. We&#8217;ve become a modern day menace, apparently. Spreading our laptops and smartphones across tables and sofa, turning our local Starbucks or Costa into an office. Marketing professors Merlyn Griffiths, from the University of North Carolina, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Synge, as imagined by Joseph O&#8217;Connor in Ghostlight. #creative #writing &#8220;He claims&#8230; that he writes out of the desire for consolation, that something in story-making eases him, assuages his demons. &#8220;But it also exhausts him. He has to be careful. (&#8216;A man cannot work with the cream of his brain for more than six hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticket For You To Hear Carol Ann Duffy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#COMPETITION for UK followers. Fancy an unforgettable night out at the beautiful King&#8217;s Place next Monday night, 14th May? I bought myself a ticket to hear the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, read from her work, including her 2011 collection The Bees. Irresistible. Only then I got an invitation to an even more irresistible dinner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 05:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#WW #Writer Wednesday #creative You were born with a mouth, a tongue, and two sets of teeth were given, the first by year two, then at seven. All thought through, all you&#8217;d need to feed and to speak. Now please do. &#8212;&#8211;]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#Inspiration #Meditation: Free ebook. I&#8217;m upgrading my Facebook page and its free giveaway. If you&#8217;d like a copy of  &#8217;Inspiration Meditation: A Guide For Writers Artists &#38; Everyone&#8217;, go across now and like the page &#8211; soon it will no longer be available for free. I&#8217;m also looking for feedback on the book, as I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#GoCreative. I&#8217;m a bit sceptical about brain training and #creativity. Brain training works best in getting you used to jumping through particular mental hoops and improving your ability to do a specific brain task. But creative thinking is different. The brainwaves that distinguish creative leaps, great ideas and inspired thinking have been shown by neuroscience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Launch Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.ornaross.com/2012/04/selfpublishing-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Closing a week of posts about the launch of the Alliance of Independent Authors at London Book Fair, this (long) post offers: A fascinating and lively podcast discussion I took part in on The Naked Book, about self-publishing&#8217;s place in the industry. Some favourite quotes from the launch of ALLIA. Links to some great follow-up posts by bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Superb Self Publishing Authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[on &#8216;How I Went Indie&#8230; and Why&#8217; LINDA GILLARD I was an award-winning, mid-list author of contemporary women’s fiction when three years ago I was dropped by my publisher. (“Disappointing sales” was the reason given.) After two years my agent still hadn’t found a publisher for my fourth and fifth novels. Editors liked the books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launching Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[#ALLIA  #writing] Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m Irish but every book I&#8217;ve ever written has had a lot to say about freedom &#8212; even my very first publication, a nonfiction book with a small feminist press in Dublin (Attic, now part of Cork University Press), called BodyMatters For Women. That was a health and exercise book [...]]]></description>
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