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		<title>Rejuvenate Your Writing Life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Restorative Mini-Retreat for Creative Women with authors Christina Baker Kline and Deborah Siegel Friday, November 4, 9:30am – 3:30pm,...<br/>
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		<title>Don’t Skip the Sex Scenes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Novelist Ellen Sussman explains why she likes to write – and read – about sex: When the first Amazon reader review for my new novel, French...<br/>
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		<title>Literary Names: Do Characters Name Themselves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On Sunday -- June 12 -- I'll be on a panel called "Going Beyond 'Tom, Dick and Mary': Naming and Giving Your Characters Dimension" at Books...<br/>
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		<title>Embrace the Digital Age!  A Contrarian Opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 19:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some time ago I posted a piece by Chad Taylor, a freelancer for Kirkus Reviews and a purveyor of fine tweets (attracting the likes of such...<br/>
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		<title>20 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Writing Life This Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; To be a writer is to weather the seasons: we stockpile ideas, we slumber long and hard, we wake up refreshed, and, hopefully, if we...<br/>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Restorative Mini-Retreat for Writing Mamas With authors Christina Baker Kline and Deborah Siegel of SheWrites.com Saturday, May 21,...<br/>
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		<title>Can Writing about Grief Make You Happy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[It might sound crazy, but for Allison Gilbert, writing about mourning has been an uplifting experience: Several weeks ago my new book,...<br/>
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		<title>”I Had to Trust that Intimate Voice”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Memoirist Susan Conley finds out how hard it can be to practice what she preaches: Four years ago my husband, Tony, and two young boys and...<br/>
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		<title>When “Write What You Know” Takes You Somewhere New</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Pianist and memoirist Nancy M. Williams on how her passion for music informed her writing – and vice versa: Two years ago, during a cold...<br/>
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		<title>What Makes a Title Great?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Novelist Caroline Leavitt on the impossibility -- and importance -- of finding the perfect title: When I finished my new novel, I was...<br/>
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