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	<description>by best selling authors Geoff Hoff and Steve Mancini</description>
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		<title>When Your Characters Speak to You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I&#8217;ve done very little writing.  Well, that&#8217;s not exactly true, I&#8217;ve written sales pages, emails, comments, tweets, posts and the like, but not done a lot of creative writing.  This is my first blog post on any of my many blogs in quite a while, and, besides notes, I&#8217;ve not move far forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/08/when-the-characters-speak-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Getting Started</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a habit, bad or good, I&#8217;ve no idea, where, once I&#8217;ve written something, I read over it several times, almost obsessively, trying to imagine what some other reader would think of it. I&#8217;m not sure why I do this, and I&#8217;ve always felt at least a little silly about it, but there it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/08/getting-started/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; American Gods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A video review of the book American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Read more books. Tell people about the books you&#8217;ve reading. Talk about them. It&#8217;s good for your heart. It&#8217;s good for your soul. It&#8217;s just good.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/07/what-im-reading-american-gods/</link>
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		<title>This is Just Terrible! &#8211; An Important Part of the Writing Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Steve and I write together, at least once during every project Steve will lament, &#8220;There&#8217;s no story, there&#8217;s nothing going on, there&#8217;s no conflict, it&#8217;s not funny!&#8221; He&#8217;s only partly joking when he does it. No matter how much thought, imagination, preparation and care we&#8217;ve put into the project, there is often a point [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/07/this-is-just-terrible-an-important-part-of-the-writing-process/</link>
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		<title>Make Writing a Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked before about scheduling writing, treating it as a job, but even I forget my own advice sometimes.  As I mentioned in my last post, I&#8217;ve been pining for the day when I had the luxury to write the book that has been forming in my head for several months.  When I got the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/07/make-writing-a-job/</link>
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		<title>Putting Off Procrastination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers often find the most creative excuses not to write. We will use anything from messy desks to low biorhythms to avoid getting down to business.  Creativity is fragile, we think, and we mustn&#8217;t jostle it.  I am as guilty of this as anyone.  And I know that creativity isn&#8217;t fragile at all, it&#8217;s hale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/07/putting-off-procrastination/</link>
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		<title>Fireworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My writing partner Steve&#8217;s favorite two holidays aren&#8217;t Christmas or Thanksgiving, they&#8217;re Hollowe&#8217;en and 4th of July.  Both offer an element of mischief (good, clean, fun, American mischief, of course) and both offer some wonderful spectacle. 4th of July in the United States is a time of celebrating our independence, (it was from England, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/07/fireworks/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Terrie Wurzbacher about Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was interviewed by Terrie Wurzbacker of Getting Unstuck, LLC.  We had a fairly rollicking time, talking about creativity, the process of writing and writer&#8217;s myths. We also digress into some odd and interesting subjects. Powered by Podbean.com You can also listen to it over on Terrie&#8217;s blog, From the Desk of Terrie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/06/interview-with-terrie-wurzbacher-about-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Blogging &#8211; Whys and Wherefores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came to the Internet fairly early. I was on several of the early bulletin board services with my very slow modem back during the dark ages before the Internet was invented. Then I joined AOL. How exciting was that? (Yes, I still have my AOL account all these many years later. I have my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/05/blogging-whys-and-wherefores/</link>
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		<title>Be a Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an exercise that is often taught in acting classes, and most actors hate it. They not only hate it, they deride it and spend countless years after their initial training parodying it and using it as an example of why it&#8217;s completely useless to study acting. That exercise is to &#8220;Be a Tree.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tipsonwriting.net/blog/2010/05/be-a-tree/</link>
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