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		<title>Memory Babe: a writing exercise inspired by Jack Kerouac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! The beat goes on! Molten meltdown of mental memes send me searching shelves for slender volumes.
I&#8217;ve tried reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac three times in my life. I forced myself to finish it last time. But apparently I was reading the wrong Kerouac or the wrong format.
My 1st choice for second period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pare It Down: a workshop on strong writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first Write-O-Rama workshop was &#8220;Pare It Down&#8221; with Anne Leigh Parrish. A workshop to get us to write simply and therefore strongly. Think Hemingway. Not one of my favorites. Not as pathetically macho as Mailer, but too focused so-called &#8220;masculine&#8221; values for me.
The idea was to choose strong words;  words of one syllable. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write-O-Rama at Richard Hugo House Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Write-O-Rama is a full-day smorgsbord of 1-hour workshops run as fundraiser for the  Richard Hugo House.  I arrived early. You never know about traffic and ferries coming from the Olympic Peninsula. Whenever I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll make a specific ferry that&#8217;s when I end up behind a caravan of RVs driven by near-sighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Medievel in P.A. About Write-O-Rama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of those &#8220;Be Careful What You Wish For&#8221; parables, I&#8217;ve spent most of this year being terribly useful. Shortly after I started working on my NaNoWriMo revisions in February, I was hired to fill-in as Interim Executive Director for an area Chamber of Commerce during a particularly nasty internal dust-up. (Bit like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Truby&#8217;s 22 Plot Building Blocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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John Truby&#8217;s screenwriting courses and software are a staple of screenwriting classes worldwide. His book,The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, presents his &#8220;Twenty-Two Building Blocks&#8221; plot structure is a classic. I purchased one of his first video writing courses mumblety-mumblety years ago when I was writing comedy and spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Critiques and Reading Like A Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan was to spend January completing the first draft of a memoir and then going back to work on the NaNoWriMo novel revisions. That was the plan.
I did, however, get to work tangentially on writing. A friend asked me to be a beta reader on the first draft of her first novel. She&#8217;s published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Fiction Writing Story Arc</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen dozens of variations on these (and I&#8217;ll be posting at least 3) through the years as I read writing books and went to classes and workshops to avoid facing the muddle that was my middle, but somehow Janice MacDonald&#8217;s version clicked. I then joined NaNoWriMo in 2007 followed by a friend asking me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Dancing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Made it! It&#8217;s official. I got my 50,000 words (actually, 53,000+ words) at 11:35 p.m. tonight. Must now sleep.
The novel&#8217;s not quite done, but the end is in sight and I feel confident I&#8217;ll actually make it.
I&#8217;ll write more tomorrow.
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		<title>Failing Farther Behind But Getting Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I only got a couple of hundred words today because I&#8217;m desperately working on writing some training materials for a presentation on Monday. I&#8217;m taking a bit of extra effort on the materials because I hope to recycle them on my web site and with other clients, but it&#8217;s proving an enormous time and energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1: Easy, Day 2: Resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carolyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, the title is misleading. I fell short of my personal Day 1 goal of 2,700 words. That&#8217;s what I need to average per day to complete over 80,000 words. I know NaNoWriMo is only 50K words, but I&#8217;m wanting to complete a full first draft, so I would need to shoot for the 80K.
But [...]]]></description>
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