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		<title>&#8220;Advice to Writers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more you clean, the more brilliant your writing will be.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins Last week I shared Jane Hirshfield&#8217;s &#8220;The Poet&#8221; (about a writer at her desk), and in the comment section we all compared notes on where we do our own creative projects. Writers are inherently messy &#8212; in a good way. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Fulghum This year I&#8217;m trying to strike a healthy balance between living creatively and being consumed by creative work. All too often, when I&#8217;m immersed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;R&#8221; word</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/the-r-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I take rejection as someone blowing in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.&#8221; &#8212; Sylvester Stallone This week I&#8217;m filling out entry forms and taking photos of my work for an art competition. I&#8217;m new at submitting my artwork to gallery competitions &#8212; and nervous about subjecting myself to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting unstuck</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/getting-unstuck-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The key question isn&#8217;t &#8220;What fosters creativity?&#8221; But it is, why in God&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create &#8212; but why do people not create or innovate? &#8212; Abraham Maslow Lately I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is a verb</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/life-is-a-verb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.&#8221; &#8212; Annie Dillard I can&#8217;t think of one creative person &#8212; painter, auto mechanic, poet, or pastry chef &#8212; who hasn&#8217;t had to endure a creative slump. In fact, I haven&#8217;t met anyone who, at some point, hasn&#8217;t questioned his or her purpose on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeing my free time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221; &#8212; Mary Oliver So, I asked a newly retired newspaper columnist if she&#8217;s planning to start a blog &#8212; especially now that her work isn&#8217;t appearing regularly in print. I&#8217;ve admired her beautiful writing for a long time, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s modesty?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/08/whats-modesty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked for long. Even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one. The great charm of all power is modesty. &#8212; Louisa May Alcott Original painting: &#8220;Tangled up in Blue&#8221; by Douglas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Po Bronson&#8217;s good advice</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/06/po-bronsons-good-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about Fame and Celebrity &#8212; how these two showoffs are misleading many new writers and muddling their aspirations. Another writing instructor told me recently that her students seem more interested in marketing and promotion than in developing their craft. Some have barely written the first chapters of their novels or memoirs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative name calling</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/06/creative-name-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping at my local craft store, I was paying for an armload of supplies when a chatty customer behind me asked what I was planning to make. âYou must be an artist,â she said, after I briefly explained that I was getting started on a new collage. Me, an artist?Â  I&#8217;d been fooling around with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixty candles</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/06/sixty-candles-sage-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always on the lookout for books on the craft of writing to recommend to new writers in my workshops. My shelves are crammed with old favorites like Anne Lamott&#8217;s Bird by Bird and Brenda Ueland&#8217;s If You Want to Write.Â  But it&#8217;s not easy to find helpful books for those who want to learn [...]]]></description>
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