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		<title>Amazon is not the Antichrist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With headlines like &#8220;The Justice Department Jumps into Amazon&#8217;s Pocket&#8221; and &#8220;The Justice Department Just Made Jeff Bezos Dictator-for-Life,&#8221; you&#8217;d think all bookstores would be closing up shop tomorrow and publishing executives would be joining lines at soup kitchens. But before we dish out that chicken noodle, let&#8217;s consider a few things. 1. Amazon is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indentured Servitude, American Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to be a writer, or any kind of creative artist? The pay is, shall we say, not impressive, but the sense of self-fulfillment is lovely. It is, obviously, a little harder to achieve that fulfillment when you&#8217;re cramming it in around a full-time job. Some energetic people thrive under such limitations, but I&#8217;m certainly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2012/04/26/indentured-servitude-american-style/</link>
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		<title>The Cost of Literary Indecision? Prizeless.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Pulitzer Committee didn&#8217;t feel there was anything out there up to its standards? What are they trying to say, exactly? Meh? There really weren&#8217;t any books that measured up to Alison Lurie&#8217;s Foreign Affairs? I love Alison Lurie, but come on. No short stories on the level of Elizabeth Strout&#8217;s? And don&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2012/04/25/the-cost-of-literary-indecision-prizeless/</link>
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		<title>Insight or Hindsight?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for a few days last week I was reading instead of writing. Shame, shame &#8212; except that I always feel that tug of war going on between reading and writing. Last week I was rereading books I&#8217;ve read many, many times &#8212; Richard Jury novels by Martha Grimes. Just procrastinating, right? Only later did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joannwelsh.com/2012/04/03/insight-or-hindsight/</link>
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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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