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		<title>Winter Olympians’ Smart Strategies Can Help You Finish Your Dissertation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is a non-negotiable deadline closing in on you?  Has it been set by your university?  Or is a job – perhaps a postdoc&#8211; resting on your finishing your dissertation soon?
As you struggle to meet the deadline, it can feel as if you are barreling downhill on an icy, bumpy slope.  And you fear that at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=481&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Inspired:  Execute a Smoking-Hot Dissertation Boot Camp</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2010/02/15/be-inspired-execute-a-smoking-hot-dissertation-boot-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How inspired are you by watching the Winter Olympics?  
What a thrill to see the moguls skiers come down the slope so fast it seems as if the screen must be on fast-forward.  Smoking fast, the commentator says.
We figured, without hearing the commentator say it, that these skiers are “on the edge of out of control.”
You have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=477&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Quick Fixes to Jolt You into Action on Your Dissertation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an encore of a blog post that appeared here April 30, 2008.
Note:  If you haven’t signed up for my free e-newsletter, Smart Tips For Writers,  you can take care of that by going to my website at www.nancywhichard.com or www.smarttipsforwriters.com.
The next Smart Tips e-newsletter goes out this week-end.  Thanks so much. I appreciate your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=475&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Timer Can Sharpen Your Focus and Increase Writing Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my dissertation coaching clients use timers on their computers to help them get started with a writing session, to stay focused, and to stick with their work. 
It also helps them to stop at a pre-determined time. In that way, they don’t stay at the writing too long and yet they stay long enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=471&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for Finding More Time to Write</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2010/02/06/5-tips-for-finding-more-time-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dissertation coaching clients and writing coaching clients have problems with time—usually the problem is that there’s not enough.  Occasionally, there’s too much time!
1.  Put it into writing.
It’s important not only to schedule writing every day, but also to mark your calendar.  One dissertation client says, “If I don’t have a space in my daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=468&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Induce Momentum in Your Writing, First Start with a Snow Day</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2010/01/30/to-induce-momentum-in-your-writing-first-start-with-a-snow-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a Snow Day where I live in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.
Usually, no matter what day of the week, this area is busy with people moving purposefully. Today, not so much.
When my dissertation coaching clients tell me that they have trouble writing because they have such limited amounts of open time, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=465&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take Some Tips from a Writing and Editing Pro</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2010/01/24/take-some-tips-from-a-writing-and-editing-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Smart Tip for all writers, editors, and professors:  Over the past year I have enjoyed a monthly e-newsletter called Ease in Writing: Writing Tips from Full Circle Communications. I think you’d like it, too.
It’s smart, focused, and free.
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre is a professional editor/writer, whose clients have sent her around the US and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=463&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boldness and Hope Will Rescue Your Dissertation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a dissertation is full of black holes that can swallow you up.
Boldness allows you to embrace hope and can make the impossible seem possible.
In the short story &#8220;Incoming Tide,&#8221; Pulitzer Prize winning writer Elizabeth Strout captures the essence of what might result from the interplay of boldness, hope, and perseverance.
&#8220;Incoming Tide,&#8221; from Strout’s collection entitled Olive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&blog=1220450&post=460&subd=successfulwritingtips&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do I need in order to be a successful writer?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2010/01/03/what-do-i-need-in-order-to-be-a-successful-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your goal is to finish your dissertation during this new year of 2010, be bold, be optimistic, and persevere.
Positive psychologists for several years have said that the strengths most important for happiness are curiosity, optimism, gratitude, zest, and loving and being loved.
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All good wishes to my readers, coaching clients, and many friends both here at home and around the world for a very happy and productive 2010.
My best to you,
Nancy
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