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		<title>A Break Down of Breakdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I’ve come out of my reading bubble. As usual, I scooped up the latest Sara Paretsky novel and read straight through. Break Down is the 15th installment in the V.I. Warshawski series (not counting the short stories) and marks the 30th anniversary of the series. It’s also the first time I remember V.I. referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love reading, and yet, somehow I don&#8217;t seem to do as much of it as I used to. Trying to balance writing and reading doesn&#8217;t come naturally, unfortunately. I can do one or the other but not both, not easily. Of course, that seems to be true of so much in my life &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2012/01/04/reading-in-2011/</link>
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		<title>New Year, New&#8230;Something or Other Outta Be New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on making some New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and want to come up with a couple for writing. Anybody else out there have some writing resolutions?]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/12/23/new-year-new-something-or-other-outta-be-new/</link>
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		<title>Writing Tools: Scrivener and Nanowrimo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the Nanowrimo experience, I decided to try out the software for novelists, Scrivener. I&#8217;m happy to say it was both easy to use and inspiring. The bad news is that I probably won&#8217;t be buying it soon. First, the positives. You can see all your &#8220;chapters&#8221; listed on the left for easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/12/19/writing-tools-scrivener-and-nanowrimo/</link>
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		<title>Inspiration at Starbucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks is playing the Nutcracker, one of my all time favorite pieces of music. I can&#8217;t say I know much about classical music, but the emotional ride of the Nutcracker inspires me no end. I&#8217;ve heard people complaining lately of the early onset of Christsmas marketing, and it does lessen the specialness of the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/12/15/inspiration-at-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>Experimental nonfiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if writing is more the tool of the lazy thinker. Why, you ask? My new phone is giving me an identity crisis. I&#8217;ve always thought of writing as one of my strengths, but using the new speech recognition software has me questioning my assumptions. I wanted to test out the speech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/11/08/experimental-nonfiction/</link>
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		<title>Raison d&#8217;être ecrivaine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some disappointing news today. Rejections are a part of any writer&#8217;s life, but sometimes it&#8217;s just harder to take than others. Those are the days when you wonder why exactly you keep at it, a tough question to face in the middle of a NaNoWriMo quest. Even tougher when staring down a future full of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/11/04/raison-detre-ecrivaine/</link>
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		<title>Day 3: Brain Trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My poor little brain will start emitting steam at any moment. First I got a poor night&#8217;s sleep and then I needed to drop off the car for service this morning, wrecking my newly established writing schedule. So here I was, late afternoon, with zero words so far on the day and my brain in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/11/03/day-3-brain-trust/</link>
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		<title>No Rest for the Wicked NaNoWriMo-ist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than three hours until our writers&#8217; group meeting &#8212; and 300 words to go. All I want to do is nap, but such is life. Today was much harder, as I&#8217;m accustomed to doing quite a bit of daydreaming before committing to paper (well, keyboard). No such luxury this month. I&#8217;ve been confining my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2011/11/02/no-rest-for-the-wicked-nanowrimo-ist/</link>
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		<title>First Day &#8212; Mission Accomplished!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, I mean &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; in the George Bush sense of the phrase. This is only day one of NaNoWriMo, and I was adding on to a draft of a chapter I&#8217;d already started (though I didn&#8217;t count the already existing text in my word count). Yes, George, this is just the tip of [...]]]></description>
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