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	<description>by best selling authors Geoff Hoff and Steve Mancini</description>
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		<title>I Resolve to Continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day in which we choose to celebrate the new year, here in the west, is almost completely arbitrary. There are no actual events in the heavens or on the earth that it commemorates, nothing celestial or secular. It is not an equinox or a solstice. Not the first day of spring or winter. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/12/i-resolve-to-continue/</link>
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		<title>The Myth of Objectivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the urging of my father, I just read a piece by the late Gonzo Journalist Hunter S. Thompson written in 1994 on the funeral of Richard Nixon. (You can find it HERE.) I think I had seen and read the piece before, but had a fairly strong reaction to it this time. I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/10/the-myth-of-objectivity/</link>
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		<title>The Myth of Reasonable Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard it all our lives: &#8220;Set goals, but set reasonable goals.&#8221;  The thinking is, if you set illogical goals or outrageous goals and you don&#8217;t meet them, you&#8217;ll be disappointed and will stop moving forward. Perhaps if you have been stuck for a very long time and need simply to knock yourself off of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/09/the-myth-of-reasonable-goals/</link>
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		<title>Do Marketing and Art Go Together?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with a friend about 1) how awful marketing and marketers were and 2) how sad it was that artists had to rely on it and them. To be fair, what he really said was that he was concerned that those who promote and market the product of creative artists gain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/05/do-marketing-and-art-go-together/</link>
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		<title>You Do Have Something to Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who who said she said she loved writing but didn&#8217;t write much because she didn&#8217;t think she had anything to say.  It is a comment I have heard often and it makes me sad. I take extreme exception to that comment whenever I hear it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/04/you-do-have-something-to-say/</link>
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		<title>Perfectionisists Unite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean no irony when I say I am a recovering perfectionist. Anyone who has ever slogged through any of my first drafts (and often second and third drafts) will be surprised to hear that. I have never applied that bit of psychological dogma to spelling, (or housekeeping) but it is, or at least has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/02/perfectionisists-unite/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Wait for Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked a lot in these posts about what I think inspiration actually is, so I won&#8217;t go into that now, but I know a lot of writers (and painters and musicians and even people who have to write for their job!) who feel they have to wait to be inspired before they sit down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/02/dont-wait-for-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute to Cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post isn&#8217;t about writing, it is, rather, something I wrote. It was almost 20 years ago when a friend said I needed a pet and convinced me to go to the annual radio station sponsored adoption fair at the local pet store.  I am a dog person, but was then living in a place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/01/a-tribute-to-cat/</link>
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		<title>The Death of Books, Newspapers, Apple Pie and Everything?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is talking about the death of books and of traditional publishing and publishers. We watched newspapers struggle in the wake of information readily available on the Internet, now we&#8217;re seeing publishing houses scramble in the wake of Amazon&#8217;s print-on-demand and Author&#8217;s Centers services, etc. I had a conversation about this with a friend of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2011/01/the-death-of-books-newspapers-apple-pie-and-everything/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Got to Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was staying at my mother&#8217;s cabin in Idaho while working on the first draft of one of my novels, Guardian Mosaic.  (No, it&#8217;s not out, yet. Hopefully this year.) I was also doing a lot of reading, plowing through Orson Scott Card&#8217;s massive five volume Homecoming Saga, among other things. My mother asked me [...]]]></description>
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