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		<title>Living in the Construction Zone&#8211;Writing the Dissertation</title>
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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 miles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2232&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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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&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2221&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;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>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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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&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2212&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2195&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;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&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>
		<comments>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/10/01/the-cost-of-keeping-score-in-a-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<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>Decision Fatigue: When It’s Finally Time to Write, What Have You Got?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/09/25/decision-fatigue-when-it%e2%80%99s-finally-time-to-write-what-have-you-got/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did you first hear of “decision fatigue”? Perhaps, like me, it was when the New York Times Magazine published an article on decision fatigue and you started getting emails from your friends and family with links to that article.  In fact, you probably received many links, and maybe the term “decision fatigue” has even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2149&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What you need to finish your dissertation</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2011/09/20/what-you-need-to-finish-your-dissertation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have a long-term goal—say, writing a dissertation or a book.  And the going gets tough.  This is one huge project. It’s a long haul—it may mean months or years of coming back to that same project. It’s been going on for quite a while.  Have you stuck with it?  Have you kept coming back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2143&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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