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		<title>Many Thanks to Dr. Tracy Steen, Editor of the All But Dissertation Survival Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 03:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Tracy Steen has been editor of the All But Dissertation Survival Guide for several years, but has decided to step down. She is an eminent, ground-breaking positive psychologist with a psychotherapy practice, and she is also a coach. As editor of the ABDSG, she applied her knowledge and experience as a positive psychologist to the subject [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2297&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Meet Your Writing Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, when my adult son mentioned how busy his work and life have become,  my husband was reminded of an annual planning session he had attended at which a facilitator presented a workshop on how to organize your time.  As my husband drew a diagram from that workshop, I realized that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2281&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The To-Do List, Your Dissertation, and Intervals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there too much to do?  Are you not getting enough done? Do you jump from task to task on your to-do list but never seem to make progress on your main writing goals? Is your dissertation still on your to-do list? As a client said to me, “Which end of the tube am I squeezing?” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2264&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Welcome Home, Mr. Cobb&#8221;: Writing under Pressure</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2012/02/29/welcome-home-mr-cobb-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking up to the United States customs agent in an airport after a trip out of the country always makes me feel uneasy. Will there be something wrong?  Where should I look as the agent flips through my passport? So I stand there, feeling awkward. Finally, the agent looks at me one more time and then, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2247&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in the Construction Zone&#8211;Writing the Dissertation</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2012/01/15/living-in-the-construction-zone-writing-the-dissertation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A giant construction project disrupts the lives and the commute of many people who use the Washington DC (or Capital)  Beltway and the business routes between the Beltway and the Dulles International Airport.   This same construction project also raises hope among many travelers that one day they can take the metro the full 30 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2232&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reset Your Frenzied Focus—Awestruck by Christmas Beauty and a Good Book</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2012/01/04/reset-your-frenzied-focus-awestruck-by-christmas-beauty-and-a-good-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Year at its most powerful is a time for reflection and a time to think about where you want to put your focus.  The holidays are often jam-packed with travel, planning, buying, eating, interacting, negotiating, and not much quiet time. The first week of the New Year may reveal that it’s harder to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2221&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What was I thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you think you had much of your shopping done for the holidays, but now you can’t find key presents? Are you wondering where that stocking- stuffer stuff is?  In the multiple piles of boxes that you have around your bedroom and basement? Did you really buy them…or maybe not? Did you schedule your holiday gathering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2212&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bad Commute and Your Writing</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/12/11/a-bad-commute-and-your-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your goal is to work on your dissertation or your article, what gets in your way and eats up your time and energy? Every writer can find a million more important things to do, such as watching all the episodes of the first season of Downton Abbey in one day.  But what else derails [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2195&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Excuses</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/11/08/no-excuses/</link>
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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&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2185&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=2171&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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