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		<title>Perfectionism be damned!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfectionism gives you a perfect excuse never to write. Perfectionism not only slows productivity, but it also makes sure that your dissertation will never meet your expectations.   Put up with the messiness of writing You have to go through the stage of writing “abominably repetitive, colloquial sentences,” as a dissertation client once described the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=1883&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Dissertation One of Your Big Rocks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August can be a time of scrambling A friend who was taking her family on a trip to Europe was rushing to get everything done.  She said, “All I have to do is just get to the plane.”  I know what she means—what a wonderful feeling it is to settle in and stare into space, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=571&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assess Your Dissertation Writing Habits and Make Some Changes: Time for Spring Cleaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is happening in the Washington DC area, not just in Congress, but here in my backyard.  Spring is here.  Tulips are pushing their way above ground.   The trees are dropping all sorts of little colored pellets on my deck and front walk.  The first days of Spring are a great time to assess your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=492&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a Dissertation?  Don’t Try This at Home</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2009/11/04/writing-a-dissertation-don%e2%80%99t-try-this-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Halloween is over, it hasn’t taken long for me to eat all of the left-over chocolate-covered raisins that the trick-or-treaters rejected in favor of Snickers.   Having all of these tidy little packages of candy in my house once again reminds me of the dangers of home.  It’s just tempting fate to stay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=417&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Use Humor to Re-group and Start Your Dissertation Writing Session: Practice Resiliency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How was your writing today? You couldn’t get a flow going today during your writing session?  Some writing sessions are like that&#8211;you start off more slowly, maybe because you’re tired, it’s the end of the week, or maybe because you didn’t prime the pump, didn’t try to induce a good mood, or didn’t practice resiliency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=405&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Use the All-or-Nothing Distortion?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2008/09/21/do-you-use-the-all-or-nothing-distortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though you may have a stated intention of working on your dissertation and making steady progress, you do everything and anything to sabotage yourself.  Could this be you? If  this sounds familiar, read on. A dissertation client is having great trouble moving forward.  Every week when we talk, there’s been another obstacle which has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=157&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caught up in Fearing Failure, Avoiding Risks, Watching Time Slip Away?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2008/09/15/caught-up-in-fearing-failure-avoiding-risks-watching-time-slip-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dissertation client told me that that a couple of years ago her professor suggested they plan to publish together. But the graduate student could never get herself to devote even a day to work on this project.  She kept putting it off.  Now she feels like it will never happen. And why would the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=155&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if Dissertation Writers Had the Focus of Tiger Woods?</title>
		<link>http://successfulwritingtips.com/2008/07/18/a-possible-model-for-the-kind-of-mental-toughness-and-flow-needed-to-finish-a-dissertation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m in line at the grocery, I read the latest celeb magazines.  If there’s an article about Tiger Woods, I’ll read about his wife and his yacht and, of course, his relationship with his father, but I’ve never been interested enough to take the time to see what are golf’s and Tiger Woods’s hold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=110&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Avoid Writing: Procrastinating on the Dissertation</title>
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