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		<title>Keeping Butt In Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>A job loss doesn&#8217;t mean a loss of identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.”  ~ William Shakespeare (photo source) &#160; Often we see ourselves through the filter of our job titles. Our work becomes such a large part of our identities. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I write, thanks to those who believed in me along the way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who become writers likely have a zillion people to whom we can be thankful. Teachers, parents, bosses, all the editors who have rejected our submissions – each of them have pushed us (or kicked us) along the way to follow our bliss and live our dream of being a writer. So, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Block?&#8221; Kill it with persistence</title>
		<link>http://www.murphywrites.com/hate-writers-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelance writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers block]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an interview in which several authors discussed whether or not they actually enjoyed writing for a living. It’s a pretty interesting question to ask because I think a lot of writers tend to romanticize writing and talk about it in terms of a “calling” or a “passion” that fulfills us. Not many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NaNoWriMo self-imposed writing frenzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book publishing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am joining with thousands of writers around the world to participate in NaNoWriMo, the annual self-flagellation writing event for authors who want to prove to themselves that they can finish an entire novel in a limited amount of time and still keep their sanity. For those who aren’t familiar with NaNoWriMo, it stands for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite writing quote of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.&#8221; ~ Clarence Budington Kelland, an American writer who once described himself as &#8220;the best second-rate writer in America&#8221; &#160; &#160; Related Posts: 13 things I learned in 2011 5 quotes that could change your attitude – and your life 25 quotes to inspire [...]]]></description>
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