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		<title>Do what you love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a DIY world, but you can&#8217;t do it alone. Build your team as wisely as you would choose typefaces or words for lyrics. Embrace your place on earth as creative. Give thanks you were given this gift to share. Turn a deaf ear to those who say the path of art is hard. Doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices, choices!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[THE PARADOX OF CHOICE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that modern Americans are feeling less and less satisfied even as their freedom of choice expands.&#8221; &#8212; Barry Schwartz When I was a gangly, insecure kid in junior high, I kept a green eye on others who were smarter, cooler, prettier, and more athletic than I was. Like most preteens, I measured my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The demons and gremlins of writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irrespective of what she reads, though, when she goes back to sit before the computer, there is the same stubborn emptiness, the same locked door.&#8221; &#8212; Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe As soon as I hit the &#8220;Publish&#8221; tab, I started worrying about last week&#8217;s blog post. Not that I regretted exposing my family&#8217;s elder-care crises. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer writing retreats</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/summer-writing-retreats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creative space is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you&#8217;ll discover will be wonderful. What you&#8217;ll discover is yourself. &#8212; Alan Alda The &#8220;Summer at the Center&#8221; catalog just rolled off the press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY publishing</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/04/self-publishing-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.&#8221; &#8212; Bruce Barton, American Congressman It&#8217;s no secret that the print and publishing industries are in turmoil and transition. In this climate, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to get a major publisher to look at your manuscript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books change lives</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/books-change-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/books-change-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Â  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden Last week, after I mentioned that Virginia Woolf&#8217;s A Room of One&#8217;s Own was one of the most influential books I&#8217;d ever read, my friend Ellen asked me to list my top 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A room of your own</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/03/a-room-of-your-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you really want to write, you will do it anywhere: under trees, on the bus, in the bathroom, or in a booth at a noisy cafe.&#8221; First published in 1929, A Room of One&#8217;s Own by Virginia Woolf has been reduced to a catchphrase for writers and architects who haven&#8217;t even read the book. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An eye on the prize</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/an-eye-on-the-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2009/02/an-eye-on-the-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[awards and prizes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money &#8212; recognition and praise. &#8211;Mary Kay Ash Everyone&#8217;s talking about the Oscars this week &#8212; the clothes, the stars, &#8220;the winners.&#8221; And over at Whole Latte Life, Joanne DeMaio recently asked what it means to be rewarded, honored, or crowned in some way for [...]]]></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>The year in rear view</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/the-year-in-rear-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/the-year-in-rear-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better person.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin I stopped making New Year&#8217;s resolutions a long time ago. They rarely stick &#8212; and only serve to throw me into a vicious cycle of guilt, remorse, and self-contempt for the [...]]]></description>
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