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	<description>ABOUT WRITING &#38; FICTION</description>
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		<title>Writing goals: What and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently invited me to join her in developing artistic goals for the upcoming year.  She makes and sells lovely botanical drawings, and I write short stories. I like the idea of writing goals and usually have a fair idea of where I want to get to,  in terms of my writing. But I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&blog=1283430&post=1606&subd=writingcompanion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New words, endangered words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last January, I posted the Macquarie Dictionary&#8217;s new words for 2008. Now the New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its shortlist of new words for 2009, plus its  Word of the Year. At the other end of the vocabulary spectrum are words that dictionaries plan to remove because no one uses them.
Word of the Year: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&blog=1283430&post=1589&subd=writingcompanion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir: The &#8216;Barbie&#8217; genre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Lit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing help & technique]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the online NY Times Sunday Book Review, I was taken with Susan Cheever&#8217;s description of why memoirs are so popular. The quote comes from &#8216;The Morning After&#8216;, Cheever&#8217;s review of Mary Karr&#8217;s memoir, Lit: A Memoir. 
Memoir is the Barbie of literary genres. It exaggerates the assets and invites the reader into an intimate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&blog=1283430&post=1574&subd=writingcompanion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing advice: Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading a positive review of Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by US author, Elizabeth Gilbert, I reserved a copy at my local library. What a surprise to find I was 30th on the waiting list. Later I discovered that her book is popular world-wide, having sold over 7 million copies.
About Elizabeth Gilbert

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		<title>Last Day at Chez Varuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wake up to a cold, rainy day, as if the weather sympathises with my feelings about this being my last day here as a resident writer at Varuna Writers&#8217; House in Katoomba NSW.
An update on my writing goals for the week. The only one I haven&#8217;t achieved is thinking up a new story. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcompanion.wordpress.com&blog=1283430&post=1536&subd=writingcompanion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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