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<description><![CDATA[Katherine Ploeger, MA, MFA has both self-published and had published more than 40 titles (books, reports, instructional materials). She is a former college English (writing) professor.  She currently serves clients as a writing coach and consultant who are nonfiction book writers, self-publishers, and screenwriters.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Is Occasional Writing Pauses</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:40:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writers suffer from writing pauses, external challenges that take the writer away from the writing. Understanding these writing pauses will enable the writer to deal with them more easily.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Identifying Your Ideal Writing Space - Noise</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:43:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Identify aspects of your ideal writing space so you can be the most productive possible. This article addresses noise levels of that writing space.]]></description>
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<title>My Blog Post Writing Process</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:44:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have a definite process for writing my blog posts, one that allows time for reflection between drafting and publishing. Allow yourself to take the time to do a great job with your blog posts.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Trial and Error With Topics</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:55:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the frustrating times as a writer when you try and try but can't seem to get your writing right concerning a topic. After a few valiant attempts, it is best go give up and move on to a topic you can write about. You can always return later to the topic in holding.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Knowing Audience and Purpose</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:46:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For any piece of writing -- whether it is a memo or a book, nonfiction or fiction -- you must know and understand two aspects of the project before starting. And you must remind yourself of these two aspects throughout the writing process. These two aspects are: know and understand your audience, as well as know the purpose for writing that particular piece.]]></description>
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<title>Use Summary to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Summary statements can be used throughout your writing for various purposes. They can be used at the end of a piece to state the main points made, throughout the writing to reinforce points of information, at the end to entice readers to continue to the next chapter. Look through your writing to see where you can use summaries to effectively improve your discussion of your topic.]]></description>
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<title>Use Reasons to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:11:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reasons that support an argument or point are essential when your readers are likely to argue about the point, question or object to it. Reasons pull from evidence, connections, and conclusions. Read your writing and see where you need to insert reasons to back up points being made.]]></description>
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<title>Use Process Analysis to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:53:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A process analysis describes the step by step process for accomplishing a task, usually physical in nature. Examine your topic to see if you can use this most useful writing method with your topic.]]></description>
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<title>Use General Advice to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:47:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General advice offers readers points to consider when making a decision. The goal, making a decision, is abstract, thus general advice writing relates to abstract goals and tasks. Can your topic lend itself to offering points to consider when making a decision about the topic?]]></description>
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<title>Use Metaphors and Similes to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:10:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Metaphors and similes can add spice to your writing, but the content and point of the figure of speech must exactly match the point being made in your writing. Be selective, be sparing, but use these valuable figures of speech to enhance your writing, spicing it up just a little.]]></description>
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<title>Use Examples to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:49:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Examples can be used in nonfiction writing to bring real life examples to a theoretical point being made. They come in all lengths and styles, such as personal anecdotes and case histories. And they are extremely helpful in allowing the reader to more fully understand your topic or your point.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Enjoying the Process</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:15:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In my definition, you should really enjoy the writing process - or at least most of it - and produce work in order to call yourself a writer. This article discusses passion for writing as essential to enjoying the process of being a writer.]]></description>
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<title>Use Division to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:31:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can your topic be divided into smaller parts, so that you can more fully and specifically explain your nonfiction topic? If so, use the writing method of division to identify the parts of the topic.]]></description>
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<title>Use Description to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:36:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Does your topic have a lot of physical objects, places, or people that could use a description? Would the description help your reader more fully understand your topic? If so, use description in your writing.]]></description>
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<title>Use Classification to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:49:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are there abstract terms you should define because your readers are unfamiliar with the term? Or perhaps they have heard it before but do not really understand it. Go through your writing and identify abstract terms that could be defined to enhance your reader's experience with your writing.]]></description>
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<title>Use Definition to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:26:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A writing method often used by nonfiction writers involves using definitions to clarity points in the writing. Definitions are used to help readers understand abstract terms: intangibles or terms without any physical presence. If you can sense it with your five senses, you will describe the object or item.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Sharing Your Expertise</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writers observe and experience life so they can gather materials to include in their writing. Writers become experts in their areas of passion and experience, which enables them to inform readers of their insights, their solutions to problems, or their views of various situations. This expertise is used in both nonfiction and fiction.]]></description>
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<title>Use Causal Strings to Find Nonfiction Writing Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:06:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can you use a causal string in your nonfiction writing project? Does your topic have events that seem to run in the same sequence most of the time? Can dissecting these causal strings enhance your knowledge of your topic so you can explain it better to your readers? This article discusses causal strings for nonfiction writers.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Like an X-Ray</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:03:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing is like an X-ray in that as a writer, you must look below the surface or skin of a topic and really understand the inner workings of the topic. With that knowledge, you can write about the topic with clarity and completeness, to the benefit of your readers.]]></description>
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<title>Use Cause &amp; Effect to Find Ideas For Nonfiction Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:54:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writers can use an examination of the causes and/or effects of a topic to generate ideas for writing about that topic. Can the cause and effect method work for the writing project at hand? Will it help readers better understand the topic? This article addresses these issues.]]></description>
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<title>Use Compare and Contrast to Find Ideas For Nonfiction Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:52:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Using the writing methods of comparing and contrasting are useful to discuss a subject, especially if the nonfiction writer compares issues or ideas within the topic itself. Comparing and contrasting two different topics might also be useful, but not so much as within the topic.]]></description>
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<title>Use Analysis to Find Ideas For Nonfiction Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:51:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Analysis can be a useful idea generating tool for nonfiction writers. Does your writing project lend itself to examining the whole topic, breaking the topic into its parts, examining the parts and their relationships to each other and to the whole? Writers can use analysis to better explain a complicated topic to the readers.]]></description>
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<title>Development Methods As Idea Generators - Analogy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:34:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the nonfiction writing methods writers can use to generate ideas for their writing is using the analogy. This article discusses the concept, when to use it, gives two examples of analogies, and then offers several questions to use in determining if analogy is right the writing project.]]></description>
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<title>Development Methods As Idea Generators - An Introduction to the 15 Methods</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:51:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article introduces a creativity technique for generating ideas using the development methods used in creating essays and other nonfiction writing. Each of the 15 development methods are briefly defined.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Discovering Your Ideas</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 09:27:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I sat down to write a post about perfectionism. Being a recovering perfectionist, I have some experience with the topic, so I thought the post would write itself. I was wrong.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Avoiding Perfectionism</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:27:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writes have a tendency to be perfectionists, at least some of them. Perfectionism involves the two extremes of the revision continuum: not revising at all or revising too much. Either way, the writer suffers as does the work.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Observing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:23:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writers are observers. They can observe in two different ways: passive observing and active observing. Both are useful at different times in a writer's day or week. Each can produce valuable ideas for writing.]]></description>
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<title>What is Prewriting, Anyway?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this article, the major activities associated with the prewriting stage of the writing process are listed. Also, two idea generating techniques are named.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is a Lousy First Draft - Always</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:43:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing the first draft can be difficult, drafting the hard way. But there is an easy way to draft, one that overcomes that stop-and-start writing process.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Recursive</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:44:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Saying that writing is recursive says that the writer can, and often does, skip around the accepted sequence of steps of the writing process. During drafting, the writer can find herself revising and editing, which is not a great idea. And during revision, new ideas can hit the writer's mind, perhaps requiring major changes to the manuscript. Accept this fact: writing is recursive.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is an Activity That Builds on Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:49:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing is one of those activities that builds on success. The more success you achieve as a writer, the easier the process becomes and the more enjoyable and successful the activity becomes. Getting over that initial "who the heck do I think I am, calling myself a writer" hump can be tough and can take years, but eventually success fill nudge you into the "I am a writer" mentality.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Iterative</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 09:04:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article discusses writing as an iterative process, creating continually changing versions of a project manuscript, often at milestone points during the revision process. It encourages using the iterative idea for creating different versions of a manuscript.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Choice</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:25:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article discusses briefly the myriad choices made by writers. Writing involves making those choices, deciding between a few or several options, all of which impact the writing and the eventual audience.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Like a Muscle</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 07:39:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing is like a muscle. At first, the effort of writing is frustrating, producing poor results; in other words, those muscles are sore. Eventually, with practice, the writing becomes easier, the results become better, and the writer achieves a level of proficiency.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is a Fear of the Blank Page, Or Not</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:37:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The "fear of the blank page" can be debilitation for some writers, while others simply ignore the fears and write. This fear can be examined from both a negative and positive viewpoint. This article discusses both, with solutions for the negative, fear-induced, freezing of the writer's energies and ideas.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Play</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:43:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many writers, writing is hard work. But for some of us, writing is play. It is a fun activity, enjoyable and rewarding to do. Writers with this "play" attitude find the whole writing process easier and more enjoyable than those who see it as hard word, usually to be avoided.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Like Zebra Stripes</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 14:26:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a writer is like being a zebra: each zebra's stripes are different from another zebra. So, too, each writer chooses a different set of genres tow work in, as well as a different set of topics to write about. This diversity of genre and topic keeps writers thriving.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Weather-Related</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:13:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, weather can affect the mood of a writer. Forget sunshine and warm weather - that's a killer. For most writers, a good rainstorm, or at least pounding rain, is the most conducive to productive writing. ]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Learning From Your Mistakes</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 09:51:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another way to improve your writing is to learn from your mistakes. Doing so requires finding someone, a good reader, to provide feedback and then you must accept that you need to learn from the comments given. Keeping two lists will help in this process: "My Favorite Editing Mistakes" and "My Favorite Idea Mistakes. Writing usually improves with practice (lots of it) but learning from your mistakes allows the process to move faster.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Building Confidence</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:10:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the crucial aspects of becoming a successful writer is building your confidence in your skills and talent as a writer. This process often takes trying different genres, receiving rejection after rejection, until you find the right genre or field right for your sensitivities and needs as a writer. Eventually, you will gain the confidence as a writer that you desire, which is reflected in several ways, all of which is discussed in this article]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Energy Out, Energy In</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:40:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article discusses the energy cycle of a writer. A writer exerts energy in writing a project, whether an article, blog post, book, novel, or whatever. As a result of sending that writing out to the marketplace, the energy is returned in various forms: money, praise, connections, knowing the writing has helped the readers. However if a gap appears in this cycle -- for example, the writer never sends anything out to the world -- then the cycle is broken, and no results will be gained.]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Subjective</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 13:59:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writing is subjective, always. Except for a few forms of writing, such as police report, which clearly are objective, most writing is subjective. This subjectivity comes because the writer must make decisions about all sorts of issues when writing something. What form should the writing take? ]]></description>
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<title>Writing is Good Grammar</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:04:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good grammar is important these days. This article presents several reasons for this importance, encouraging you to study grammar issues that plague your writing.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Group Leader Guidelines to Study Sessions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:17:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you belong to or lead a writing group? Have you considered spending multiple sessions to study of a writing issue? In this article, I will discuss my process for setting up and conducting writing group study sessions, based on my many years of experience designing, developing, and implementing curriculum for adult learners.]]></description>
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<title>Dark Chocolate Health Benefits</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:17:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dark Chocolate offers several intriguing and wonderful health benefits. So give up the guilt and consume dark chocolate - in moderate quantities, of course.]]></description>
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<title>10 Advantages to Being a Freelance Writer and Entrepreneur</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:30:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The life of a freelance writer -- whether writing and selling your own products, or writing for clients -- can be a tough one. But it can also be extremely rewarding and fun. Here are a few advantages to being a freelance writer and entrepreneur.]]></description>
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<title>10 Advantages to Writing Nonfiction</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:29:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I love to write nonfiction, especially about writing, travel, word games, and, oh heck, so many other interests. I'm a writer, after all. I love to write fiction as well (usually in the form of screenplays), but this article is about nonfiction.]]></description>
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<title>A Brief Bio of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:27:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a short bio of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It includes a listing of his four novels and six collections of short stories.]]></description>
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<title>9 Disadvantages of Being a Freelance Writer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:44:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have discovered nine disadvantages (some tongue in cheek) to being a freelance writer. I'm sure you've got your own to add to the list.]]></description>
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<title>Foot-Powered Scooter Safety Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:28:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To keep your child safe while using a foot-powered scooter, teach your child these safety driving tips. To keep your child safe while traveling, make sure your child wears protective gear whenever riding the scooter.]]></description>
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<title>Organic Certifications Explained</title>
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