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		<title>Far World - water keep By J. Scott Savage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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In the real world, it is pretty hard to be a hero, especially if you are a little kid.  Now imagine yourself as a kid who has to get around in a wheelchair because of physical disabilities.  Okay, go ahead and try to intimidate the bad guys.  Impossible?  Not if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>woof woof! woof woof! writers offering our finest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Tuesday is WOOF day.  W.O.O.F. -  Writers Offering Our Finest Contest, for Writer&#8217;s and Writing Blogs, is sponsored by Plotdog Press. They accept posts with original work - fiction, poetry, prose, graphic novels, information about the writing process, plus photos and artwork about writing.     Also check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fess up friday&#8230; or is it sins on saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a fair amount of writing going on this week.  Unfortunately, it has also been a very unsettling week, with a lack of a certain kind of focus.  I did spend a lot of time on query letter, synopsis, and first thirty pages of the WIP.  I was able to dive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write on Wednesday -  late again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Becca asks:
How does writing fit into your daily life?  What’s your ideal time to write, and why? Do you “write on schedule” or “when the spirit moves you”?
This Write on Wednesday just never seems to get done on time…. Does that say something about my writing schedule, or lack there of?
I actually have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cluttered desk, cluttered mind - clear desk&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Oh my gosh.  What a mess!!
Today is catch up, announce, sort through, throw away, and otherwise clear my desk so I can clear my mind.
Laurence Peter said, &#8220;If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?&#8221;  (Too funny.  Yes, he is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PlotDog Press and Woof contest winners</title>
		<link>http://qugrainne.com/2008/07/15/plotdog-press-and-woof-contest-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plotdog Press – Writers and Writing by T.L. Raun, runs a Woof Contest every week.  Writers send a blog-post to the site, and everyone who enters votes to choose the top five posts.  The following are the top five posts that have something to do with writing for this week:
Woof Contest- Top 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fess up Friday   &#8230; Write on Wednesday, all rolled into one</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course I have to start with a fun photograph.
Handsome herron on Galway Bay.
I can only blame myself. Too many things going on, and then there is the seductive allure of the internet.  Have you ever gotten lost in a large woods?  I find myself on a main path, looking for something specific. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climax and the battle of the adjectives and the adverbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Rain in Ireland, not Milwaukee.  It&#8217;s raining everywhere!
The torrential rain has ended, the humidity is starting its climb, and I am sitting in my nice, cool, office, sipping a hot cappuccino served by my favorite barisita.  Heaven, at least physically,  Mentally, not so heavenly.  I am in revision mode on a [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Some people are guilty of taking the simple pleasures in life for granted.  I am as guilty as the next person.  One thing I do not take for granted, however, is my library.  My library is a living, breathing thing; my dear friend.   On this perfect, rainy day, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write-on-Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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My relationship with my father was a stereotypical ‘love and hate.’  He had very high expectations for those around him, and I, being the first child, received the focus of those expectations.  And I never felt I met them.  Now, this may be on me.  I have no idea, because he [...]]]></description>
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