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		<title>Writers:  Taking (smart) risks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope you guys get as much as I do out of these weekly posts from Kristine Kathryn Rusch as part of her Freelancer&#8217;s Survival Guide.  She always gets my brain moving in new directions, and shows me what I haven&#8217;t thought of yet and need to.
This week&#8217;s installment:  Taking risks.  Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/writers-taking-smart-risks</link>
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		<title>Because I am a sucker for the handsome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some nice surprises here!




Technorati Tags: Random Acts of Handsomeness


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		<link>http://robinbrande.com/movies-tv/because-i-am-a-sucker-for-the-handsome</link>
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		<title>Writers:  The value of conferences and other continuing education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the current installment of Kristine Kathryn Rusch&#8217;s Freelancer&#8217;s Survival Guide.   This week&#8217;s topic:  Why writers&#8211;beginning, mid-career, bestselling, all of us&#8211;need continuing education and continuing contact with other people in our profession.  This is about finding the holes in your knowledge, and being smart enough to fill them.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/writers-the-value-of-conferences-and-other-continuing-education</link>
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		<title>For those of us writing something right now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, all.  Thought I&#8217;d take a break from the manuscript I&#8217;m writing right now with the Olympics playing in the background so I know when to pause in the middle of a sentence and go watch skiing and skating (don&#8217;t really care about the bobsled&#8211;sorry, bobsled fans), and with Lost being recorded on another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/for-those-of-us-writing-something-right-now</link>
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		<title>Writers:  Goals and dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the latest installment of my teacher Kristine Kathryn Rusch&#8217;s fabulous series The Freelancer&#8217;s Survival Guide.  This time, goals and dreams&#8211;the difference between them, how to set them, how to make them hard enough to be worth working for, yet not so hard that you&#8217;ll disappoint yourself continuously.
After reading it, I sat down and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/writers-goals-and-dreams</link>
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		<title>Why writers need to keep learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excellent new post by my teacher Dean Wesley Smith.  If you really want to blow your mind, go back and read all the posts in the series&#8211;and especially read the discussions that take place in the comments to those posts.  I agree entirely with Dean that as writers we need to continue educating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/why-writers-need-to-keep-learning</link>
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		<title>On creativity, being wrong, and having Shakespeare (the student) in your English class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this lecture!  Watched it once already this morning, and will now go watch it again.
I especially love the line, &#8220;If you&#8217;re not prepared to be wrong, you&#8217;ll never come up with anything original.&#8221;
And I especially, especially love the whole discussion of what it would be like to have a young William Shakespeare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/on-creativity-being-wrong-and-having-shakespeare-the-student-in-your-english-class</link>
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		<title>This stuff, I love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us pretend we don&#8217;t self-Google, but honestly, if I didn&#8217;t, I never would have found this:

It makes me smile so large to see stuff like this.  I appreciate the girls&#8217; creativity&#8211;what a great job they did!  And of course I appreciate that they decided to do their video book report [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/reading/this-stuff-i-love</link>
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		<title>Having a business plan as a writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope that you, my fellow published and aspiring writers, really do see your writing life as a business.  You are the president, the CEO, the principal player, the monarch (in some of your cases)&#8211;call yourself what you will.
You could choose to just let things happen.  To not take yourselves seriously.  To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/having-a-business-plan-as-a-writer</link>
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		<title>The fifty pounds Meg Cabot &amp; I have in common</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, you never know what you&#8217;re going to find out about an author&#8211;especially one you admire as much as I do Meg Cabot.  Those of you who have followed this blog long enough know that I&#8217;m a huge fan of both her books and her blog.
And now, in one of those strange loop-de-loops, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robinbrande.com/writing/the-fifty-pounds-meg-cabot-i-have-in-common</link>
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