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		<title>5 thoughts on winning from an Olympic Gold Medalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristin Armstrong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  (photo source)   I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Olympic Gold winning cyclist Kristin Armstrong for a magazine article. Armstrong lives in my home town of Boise, Idaho, and has been called America’s most decorated professional female cyclist. Among her numerous medals, awards and rankings, she is best known for her 2008 Olympic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes about the art of writing &#8211; from writers who&#8217;ve been there, done that</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers' sayings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the books I came across when going through my dad&#8217;s library after he passed away was a delightful little book called, W.O.W. – Writers on Writing, by John Winokur, a virtual quote-collecting guru. Inside its 372 pages are quotable thoughts from famous and not-so-famous writers who seemingly have something to say about every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 meditations to soothe the unemployed</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/03/5-meditations-to-soothe-the-unemployed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Losing a job can be a grief-filled experience, rating high on the list of stress producers. The emotions you feel may be crazy as you pick you way through each unemployed moment of each jobless day, wondering what you could or should have done differently to keep your job, and why this is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lighter side&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Working as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers and editors]]></category>

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		<title>What&#8217;s a Real Writer? Is it me? Is it you?</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/02/whats-a-real-writer-is-it-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Happiness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I used to say that I wanted to be a “real writer.” A real writer, to me, wrote books and films and then someone would publish their work and pay them for it. Most of my life I figured I was just a wannabe writer. I had written little stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Butt In Chair</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/02/keeping-butt-in-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Working as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (graphic from) I think all writers have gone through times when we’ve wondered, “What the hell am I doing? I can’t seem to string more than a few words together and even they don’t make much sense.” Then there are days when all we need to do is sit down at the keyboard, take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you following your bliss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow your bliss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second chances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a birthday, and let’s just say I&#8217;m closer to entering retirement than I am to entering college. For readers who may be way younger than me, you might not &#8220;feel&#8221; what I&#8217;m going to write about (although one day you will). I used to think I had all the time in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book promotion 101 &#8211; relationships are key</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/01/book-promotion-101-relationships-are-key/</link>
		<comments>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/01/book-promotion-101-relationships-are-key/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR & Promotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ (Author Patti Murphy (L) talking with Amanda Turner, host of Radio Boise&#8217;s Writer&#8217;s Block show) A lot of writers hate the idea of having to do self-promotion. Trying to pitch someone on why they should do a story on you and your book can sometimes feel uncomfortable. For me it conjures up the words of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 things writers should stop doing</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2012/01/things_writers_should_stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today as I was jotting down thoughts for a New Year&#8217;s blog about some of the things we writers (me especially!) need to stop doing this year, and other things we might start trying to do, DING, DING, DING!, a friend forwarded to me this blog link from terribleminds.com, called &#8220;25 things writers should stop doing.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 things I learned in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/2011/12/13-things-i-learned-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 life lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but 2011 has probably been the most difficult, bittersweet year I can recall. It was a year in which I excitedly published my first book, and then lost my dad a few months later. That sort of year, if you know what I mean. There are a few quotations that [...]]]></description>
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