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		<title>Writing Under Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, a friend asked me how I produce so much fiction.  I almost told her that I&#8217;m not one to admire right now in that department; I&#8217;m under a lot of stress and have very little energy for writing.  I&#8217;m still producing, but very slowly by my own reckoning.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/07/09/writing-under-stress/</link>
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		<title>A Simple Will for Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Neil Gaiman, via Dean Wesley Smith:  a simple will for writers.  I&#8217;ll be all over this on Monday morning myself, given that I have a will covering all my other property but *not* my intellectual property.  I want my stories and novels to be handled well in my absence, and for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/06/19/a-simple-will-for-writers/</link>
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		<title>Great quotes on writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great blog post from Dave Hendrickson on comments from legendary basketball coach John Wooden.  The comments were originally made about sports, and they apply equally well (which is to say, extremely well) to writing.  Good stuff!
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		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/06/11/great-quotes-on-writing/</link>
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		<title>Imagination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article with much food for thought &#8212; The Pleasures of Imagination, from the June 8, 2010, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
As a writer, I spend a lot of time in my imagination.  It&#8217;s one of the reasons I also consider movement to be so important, and am not physically satisfied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/06/08/imagination/</link>
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		<title>Workshoppers R Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent last week on the Oregon coast at a mystery writing intensive taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.  Twelve professional writers + lots of writing and reading.  So much fun and so much hard work.
Over the course of six days, we each produced six novel proposals in various mystery subgenres &#8212; cozy, PI/detective, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/05/19/workshoppers-r-us/</link>
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		<title>Risk (Not the board game.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I wrote a short post here that mentioned writing what feels dangerous.  I didn’t go into any real detail at the time because I actually didn’t have the time, and because it felt like something I wanted to cogitate on a some more before I said anything else about it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/04/08/risk-not-the-board-game/</link>
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		<title>Attention Writers:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go here and read the Freelancer&#8217;s Guide posts.  All of them.  They&#8217;re invaluable.

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		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/04/08/attention-writers/</link>
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		<title>Reading, Writing, and Joan Jett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve been back from the coast, I&#8217;ve been pretty steadily focused down on keeping all my novels and short stories in the mail.  One rejection comes back, one query or story goes out.  I&#8217;m having to move from a more nebulous tracking system to something more systematic, like a spreadsheet, for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/04/08/reading-writing-and-joan-jett/</link>
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		<title>Refocus, Grasshopper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a short story this week.  The idea came to me in a dream &#8212; exceedingly rare for me, that sort of thing &#8212; and I surrendered to the idea of waking up long enough to write it down on my bedside pad o&#8217; paper.  
The story is a mad wrangle. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/03/25/refocus-grasshopper/</link>
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		<title>Workshopping:  all about Oregon in February edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back and finally settled some after having been on the Oregon coast for a week and a half in February.  These trips have always been invaluable, and this one was no exception.
First up, novel workshop.  I&#8217;ve been to these before, but this time there was a new method, moving from traditional Clarion workshop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslieclairewalker.com/2010/03/05/workshopping-all-about-oregon-in-february-edition/</link>
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