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		<title>Missing Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;ve been missing, but for a good cause. The last couple of months have been busy, busy, busy.
Let me say that again. B-U-S-Y.
It&#8217;s the kind of busy that sees me plopping into bed when I get home and tinkering with the latest time-management game, which puts me to sleep. I complained to K, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=225&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Single Writer and Her Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to realize that I cannot write and be in a romantic relationship at the same time.  The energies that I use for writing are about as intense as those I exert when I am madly, passionately in love with someone.
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		<title>Notes on Writing a Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing isn&#8217;t a fun process. It is laborious. It feels like giving birth (and I know the feeling). The thought of writing may seem like a piece of cake, but the act isn&#8217;t. And the idea of a looming deadline doesn&#8217;t make it any easier.
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		<title>Writing resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing for close to 10 years, but I&#8217;ve never started writing an article with the idea that I could breeze through it in an hour. Starting is almost always the hardest thing to do when you&#8217;re writing, so sometimes when I&#8217;m stuck without a lead, I move on to the middle part simply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=208&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Freelance Lessons I Learned in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s the last day of 2008, and as I walked home today, I thought of the many things that happened to my career and my freelance work this year and the lessons they brought. I hope you learn something from this:
1. Learn how to say no. I&#8217;m the kind of person who finds it hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=199&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People we&#8217;re grateful for</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Thanksgiving, so for the first time in months I managed to get a real holiday. When I woke up today, I thought of the many things in my life now that I&#8217;m thankful for, and as I look back in the last 15 years, I thought of people who have steered my life to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=182&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Characters Past</title>
		<link>http://writesense.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/writing-about-characters-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a five-day-old newspaper this afternoon and found myself drawn to a lifestyle column about an artist who had long died. The writer shared how she first met this painter and his impact on her. I won&#8217;t quote what she said&#8211;that would be giving it away&#8211;but I was surprised how, after reading the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=170&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Form and Substance, and Working with Brilliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Form and substance. It’s an idea I got from Joan O., whom I worked with early in my career. Writing should make sense, but most importantly, the presentation should be topnotch. Especially in public relations, where first impressions count, form matters greatly. You want to get people’s attention, but the idea has to have something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=175&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself writing furiously, excitedly again two months ago, when San Franciso-based J was just a new presence in my life. The thought of him inspired me to write&#8211;he gave me a boost by telling me he thought I was such a brilliant writer, and of course, I fell for it. I would rush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=156&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently Reading: This Is Not Chick Lit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America&#8217;s Best Women Writers, edited by Elizabeth Merrick, has been sitting sadly in my bookshelf for more than a year before I finally picked it up.
I&#8217;m thankful I brought it along on a media coverage and that I finally read it (an ex sent it to me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writesense.wordpress.com&blog=154213&post=139&subd=writesense&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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