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		<title>How Do You Keep Writing To The End?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of my little village on the Oregon coast, a park perches on the headland jutting into the ocean along the edge of the bay.  Three white lines stand out on the concrete sidewalk.
These lines have significance on only four days of the year.

They mark the position of the sun as it sets into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You A Victim Of Writer&#8217;s Doubt?</title>
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When I spoke with a client the other day, she said she was stuck and unable to write. She told me she didn’t think she was good enough to write the story.  She was mired in the bog of Writer’s Doubt.
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been spending time at the house on the coast. Lots to do to recover from winter.
We were told it’s been a dry winter. You can’t tell it by the vegetation. Everything has grown like crazy. A little, or a lot of rain and a little sun, really makes the plants put on growth spurts.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Writing More One of Your New Year&#8217;s Resolutions? Have You Joined The EZA Challenge?</title>
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		<title>How Can You Improve Your Writing Skills?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably had this problem at one time or another. When you sit down to write, your fingers don’t fly over the keys or your words would be better gracing the bottom of the bird cage instead of shining in your next novel.]]></description>
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