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		<title>No Excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a writer who isn’t lured and waylaid by the distractions of the internet and email? Is there a writer who hasn’t written about those same distractions? How about you? How well did you do today? Did you stay on task and reach your writing goal for the day? Or did procrastination and Facebook [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2185&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you can’t get on Facebook, you might as well work</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/10/11/if-you-can%e2%80%99t-get-on-facebook-you-might-as-well-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mental toughness, self-control, willpower, grit— I turn again to these compelling strengths. Why? Because distractions, especially electronic distractions, complicate the writer’s life.  The struggle for self-control over distractions takes up more and more of your mental space.  What can you use to free your mental space in order to concentrate on your writing? What can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2171&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of keeping score in a relationship</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/10/01/the-cost-of-keeping-score-in-a-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Saturday alone is a gift.  My husband is gone for the weekend, and I am writing. As a reward to writing first, I promised myself a bit of email-inbox decluttering. To see if I should read it or delete it, I clicked on Gretchen Rubin’s “5 Mistakes I Continue To Make in My Marriage.”  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2160&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Precommit to Write: The Nothing Alternative</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/09/28/precommit-to-write-the-nothing-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What could help you have an easier time starting to write and sticking with the writing? In the new book Willpower, psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and New York Times science writer John Tierney present research that willpower is limited, in part because you use the same resource for so many different things.  Since you can’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2152&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to Write? Put a Door between You and Your Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In a recent blog, I sang the praises of writing whenever you are taking a plane somewhere.  The quiet, distraction-free atmosphere makes flying perfect for writing, or so it seems to me.  I heard from a dissenting reader. She said, “I’d love to be able to devote myself to writing while on a plane, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2123&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mom’s in Maine – Marking Boundaries for Space to Write</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/07/22/mom%e2%80%99s-in-maine-%e2%80%93-marking-boundaries-for-space-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are your children home on vacation from school?  And you’re trying to keep an eye on your children, as well as make headway on your writing project? How’s that working for you? During the school year, most academics teach and try to write.  Both teaching and writing are critical for an academic’s success and are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2102&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full time job?  And trying to write a dissertation, too?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/05/21/full-time-job-and-trying-to-write-a-dissertation-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 14:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago a person who had finished her course work for her Ph.D., but had not done much toward her dissertation, wrote to say that as someone who worked full-time away from home, she couldn’t fathom how she could add writing her dissertation to the mix of not only working full-time, but also being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writers and Spring Break&#8211;Sail on, Silver Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of the lucky ones with Spring Break in the offing?  Have you been thinking and hoping and waiting for Spring Break?  Finally, you say, I’ll make some headway on my dissertation or book. Visualize how it will work when you have none of the usual demands that take your time and distract you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=1740&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bonjour Mars!  What do you really, really want to have written by the end of March?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/03/01/bonjour-mars-what-do-you-really-really-want-to-have-written-by-the-end-of-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ March is a long month – 4 ½ weeks.   And for some people, there’s a week of Spring Vacation thrown in! Whoopy!  What kind of plan for writing do you want for March?  Days you are going to work, the amount of time you will work,  or how much you will get done?   Results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=1723&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the all-or-nothing mentality</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/02/06/breaking-the-all-or-nothing-mentality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re frustrated that it is taking so much time to get to the dissertation finish line.  Do you minimize your efforts and withhold any sense of accomplishment for the work you’ve done to get this far?  Each week you look back and dismiss your work “Is that all? Well, really, that wasn’t good enough.”   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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