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	<description>A blog about the creative process of writing from Susan K. Perry.</description>
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		<title>Good-bye, and One Final Tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I lied. To myself. I thought I could keep up a constant and frequent posting rate here at this blog, and it turned out to be impossible. I wasn&#8217;t doing my real writing. So I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to wish my readers here farewell. To thank you for your generous comments. And to offer one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/06/good-bye-and-one-final-tip/</link>
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		<title>What If Other Writers Are Already Using MY Idea?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m going to answer another reader question (this reader happens to be a client of mine, so I know her work quite well).  Many would-be published authors have this question in one form or another. I myself have had it, found it a challenge to my confidence and motivation to persist, but overcame the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/what-if-other-writers-are-already-using-my-idea/</link>
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		<title>Two Ways NOT to Get Your Nonfiction Book Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have two writing clients at the moment, both of whom are working on nonfiction books.  They both crave publication, and I believe they both have a good chance or I wouldn&#8217;t have taken them on or stuck with them this long.  Yet they may each be sabotaging themselves.  I&#8217;ll explain. Lex (names and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/two-ways-not-to-get-your-nonfiction-book-published/</link>
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		<title>Can Fiction Be an Antidote to Loneliness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When David Foster Wallace, a brilliant writer of both fiction and nonfiction, killed himself less than two years ago, I was as taken aback as many of his fans.  I hadn&#8217;t read all of his work yet, and perhaps I&#8217;d missed what in retrospect seem strong hints of irremediable depression.  I always figured he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/can-fiction-be-an-antidote-to-loneliness/</link>
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		<title>To Write? Play!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play is anything but pointless for the unloosing of creativity.  Some writers swear by its value.  According to romance novelist Phoebe Conn, &#8220;Writing is just fun for me, wonderful fun.  It isn&#8217;t like work, it&#8217;s never drudgery.&#8221; And this is how novelist Phyllis Gebauer describes her thought processes before and after sitting down to write: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/to-write-play/</link>
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		<title>Are You Afraid to Befriend Your Shadow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How fearful are you of your own fantasies?  Imagine doing anything you want. Anything! For some people, especially women, it can be incredibly difficult to imagine breaking the normal boundaries of niceness.  In Getting Unstuck, a guide to unblocking your creativity, it&#8217;s suggested that you talk to your shadow side to learn what&#8217;s holding you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/are-you-afraid-to-befriend-your-shadow/</link>
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		<title>Are Depressed Poets Still Creative?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens to a writer&#8217;s creative output when he or she takes anti-depressants? It&#8217;s a myth that treatment harms creativity, according to numerous poets and other creative artists, as well as those who treat them. Richard M. Berlin, M.D., is a psychiatrist whose book of poems, How JFK Killed My Father, won the Pearl Poetry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/are-depressed-poets-still-creative/</link>
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		<title>An Engineer&#039;s Thriller and How It Finally Got Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world may not end with a bang, but with a bioweapon. A new thriller, The Ark, posits a bad guy who heads a cult and wants to end the world as we know it. His method: a highly contagious disease that was found on Noah&#8217;s Ark. The Biblical elements seem incidental to much of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/an-engineers-thriller-and-how-it-finally-got-published/</link>
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		<title>8 Kinds of Awful Writing Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every piece of writing advice you&#8217;ve been taught could be wrong – for you. Always think of such rules as mere suggestions, knowing that the opposite of each one may be even more worthy. When I interviewed 76 successful novelists and poets, I discovered how silly some of the usual instructions can be.  My advice, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/writers-mind/2010/05/8-kinds-of-awful-writing-advice/</link>
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		<title>Fresh Ways to Get Your Writing Rejected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When novelist Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew&#8217;s Last Stand) was asked to &#8220;help select work for short story contests, writing workshops and literary reviews,&#8221; she made the shift from a desperate seeker of signs of approval for her own writing to a &#8220;callous discarder of manuscripts.&#8221;  As she puts it: Having spent many years putting hours [...]]]></description>
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