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		<title>Another step into the dizzying world of social networking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning and the first thing I did (after starting the coffee, of course) was pick up my laptop. I clicked the icon for my email, and more than a hundred messages were waiting for me to &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenlourde.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/another-step-into-the-dizzying-world-of-social-networking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kathleenlourde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19475388&amp;post=101&amp;subd=kathleenlourde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotle’s Timeless Advice for Writing Great Tragedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Poetry is the province either of one who is naturally clever, or one who is insane,” Aristotle says. “In the one case, a man can take the mold of any character; in the other, he is lifted out of his &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenlourde.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/aristotles-timeless-advice-for-writing-great-tragedy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kathleenlourde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19475388&amp;post=40&amp;subd=kathleenlourde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living the Story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think all possible stories exist on a different plane, and we just somehow manage to slip our brains into that plane and see the stories. And some of us are compelled to write them down, maybe to try to &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenlourde.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/living-the-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kathleenlourde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19475388&amp;post=26&amp;subd=kathleenlourde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What To Do With a Really Long Novel?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve got a writing problem I’m hoping to get advice on. I’m writing a novel, a psychological suspense novel, that is now 678 pages long (or 174,000 words). That, of course, is much too long. Although I haven’t started the necessary &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenlourde.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/what-to-do-with-a-really-long-novel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kathleenlourde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19475388&amp;post=3&amp;subd=kathleenlourde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The All-Important First Sentence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joan Didion told the Paris Review in 1978, “What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenlourde.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/the-all-important-first-sentence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kathleenlourde.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19475388&amp;post=8&amp;subd=kathleenlourde&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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