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			<title><![CDATA[A Writer's Perspective: Attitude is Everything]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not a Pollyanna. True to an Aquarian born in the year of the Dragon, I'm incredibly impatient, impulsive, emotional, irrational and irritable. And those are my good points. But with that said, I've learned to hang tough. I write those words to my friends struggling to sell, struggling to believe, struggling to hang in there, and I don't write it lightly, and I never say it carelessly. But if we want to make it, we have to dig in, hang on, and hang tight.<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Critique Groups or Freak Groups]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not a fan of critique groups. I've been in two. One was controlling and the other damaging. Members showed up without material to share. Members showed up not prepared. Members showed up having rewritten each other's chapters. <br/><br/>It was weird. It was ugly. It was like being thirteen and in junior high again.<br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Drawing a Blank]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've heard successful writers proclaim they don't get writer's block because they won't allow themselves to get writer's block. Others have said that writer's block is related to motivation, or lack of. All I know are my own painful experiences of starting a new book and eventually drawing a blank. I've learned some techniques to help me work through my own writer's block and maybe they'll work for you:]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Getting Game: Developing Mental Toughness]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jane Porter gives the good on how to get mentally tough and become a better writer.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How To Put On Your Own Writers Retreat]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Feeling burned out? Need a break but you've got another deadline looming? Plan a writer's retreat! <br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ten Things Not To Do?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jane Porter's 10 Things Not to Do if You're Trying to Sell to Harlequin in 10 Years or Less!<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:30:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Short & Sweet: Where I Get Ideas]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I write contemporary category romances. They're short. They're intense. And they're sexy. But each new book needs new plot and I'm always looking for suggestions as well as inspiration. Some of my best research and freshest ideas have come from... <br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:30:00 CST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Short & Sweet: Where I Get Ideas]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I write contemporary category romances. They're short. They're intense. And they're sexy. But each new book needs new plot and I'm always looking for suggestions as well as inspiration. Some of my best research and freshest ideas have come from... <br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jane Porter)</author>
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