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	<description>Novelist, Screenwriter, Fugitive Lawyer, Code Monkey . . .</description>
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		<title>The Onion: Why We Haven&#8217;t Finished Our Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Writer Uninterrupted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most powerful people are on the manager's schedule. It's the schedule of command. But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can't write or program well in units of an hour. That's barely enough time to get started.]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker: Show Or Tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Creative Writing Be Taught? From The New Yorker, June 8, 2009, by Louis Mendand The workshop is a process, an unscripted performance space, a regime for forcing people to do two things that are fundamentally contrary to human nature: actually write stuff (as opposed to planning to write stuff very, very soon), and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does It Take So Long?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hoary old adage is that publishing a book is like giving birth: It takes nine months. Nowadays, we have electronic typesetting, high-speed presses, print-on-demand, and oceans of text gushing through fiberoptic pipes onto computer screens all over the planet. So why does it still take so long to publish a dead-tree edition? Writing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rejection, Thy Constant Companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. &#8211;Winston Churchill Most writers worry about rejection, not acceptance. Ray Bradbury says that the successful writer has to deal with both: &#8220;You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.&#8221; Several articles on this site (usually in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writers On Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen days into the Hollywood Writers&#8217; Strike and the blogs have sprung to life with daily accounts of writers walking the lines in Los Angeles. Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin have running accounts of what it&#8217;s like out there in the first full-scale WGA strike since 1988. According to the Los Angeles Times, negotiations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Books On Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Writing Aspiring writers often seek advice about how to find a publisher or a literary agent. Unfortunately, most authors don&#8217;t know much about the book business, unless they happen to live and work in the New York publishing world. For the rest of us, who live in Omaha or Dubuque and don&#8217;t know many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Query A Literary Agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ye Olde Query Letter I loathe writing. On the other hand I&#8217;m a great believer in money. &#8211;S.J. Perelman Many large publishing houses accept only manuscripts submitted by agents. Many agents aren&#8217;t interested in representing unpublished authors. So now what? If you are an unpublished novelist, don&#8217;t bother a literary agent or anyone else in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books Are a Hard Sell &#8211; washingtonpost.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never mind reading entire books. Who has time for that? Librarians these days are information specialists teaching information literacy. A Librarian&#8217;s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell &#8211; washingtonpost.com]]></description>
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		<title>Giving It Away &#8211; Forbes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dooling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re used to seeing books on, say, computer programming given away free online, as contributions to the Open Source movement, or as marketing to enhance the author&#8217;s stature (or Google rank) just before the publication of his next non-free book. You don&#8217;t see many novelists giving away free electronic access to their works. Cory Doctorow [...]]]></description>
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