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		<title>Protect us from Perfection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devil’s propensity for details pokes specifically at perfectionists. The details of any project are the perfectionist’s easy target. Let’s dot each i and cross each t and for heaven’s sake let’s make sure the apostrophes line up just so. Can you relate to this vision of hell?
I’ve written about perfection before, and recently my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Daily Writer Note</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To encourage writers participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) I started writing The Daily Writer Notes, sending out an encouraging little email each morning.  The series sure kept me writing at least a little something every single day!  I enjoyed writing these so much that I&#8217;ve decided to keep on writing them every day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>License to Write Badly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writer, how often do you stop to reread your work and then agonize over what you just wrote because it&#8217;s not perfect? How much time to you spend mulling exactly where to start a scene, debating the perfect first line for the fifth chapter, toying with the perfect verb for a key sentence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Aside Time to Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any big writing project, or even a modest writing project (is any writing project modest? I don&#8217;t think so!) requires you to sit down and actually write.  Finding the time to write is a matter of priority setting and a matter of logistics. 
Once you’ve cleaned up your calendar and eliminated any &#8220;extra&#8221; responsibilities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Help Writing 2000 Words a Day</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/writing-daily/get-help-writing-2000-words-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Daily]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be wondering about all the NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month fuss. Wondering why anyone would even want to try to write a novel in a month or 50,000 words of anything in thirty days. At that pace, the quality will be subpar and the burnout risk is above average. Let&#8217;s be bluntly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just in Time for NaNoWriMo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishing the first issue of Scoops and Swoops newsletter has emboldened me. The thrill of hitting that send button is close to the terror I feel leaning over a precipice, an abyss, or my balcony. (You can subscribe to it on the sidebar right. Next issue is sometime in November. First issue is archived here.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cope with Creative Anxiety Exercise</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/creative-anxiety-exercise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How to Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching the Artist Within]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Maisel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self coach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self sabotage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tao]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to bring up the subject of creative anxiety twice in one week and then not offer a coping exercise!  In his self-help creativity manual Coaching the Artist Within, psychologist Eric Maisel suggests we learn to appreciate what he terms the “Tao of Anxiety” and thus coach ourselves through it.
It is, as are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Outsmart Perfectionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep in Chapter 8 of Eric Maisel’s Coaching the Artist Within, we come across a nugget on identifying and dealing with perfectionism. Maisel argues that we are culturally conditioned to value a high gloss perception of perfection over reality. Reality, of course, includes both glossy and matte, highs and lows, successes and failures, perfection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April is for Poetry</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/motivation-inspiration/april-is-for-poetry/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/motivation-inspiration/april-is-for-poetry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation & Inspiration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the powers that be have named April National Poetry Month. The nice helpful elves over at The New York Times put together a nifty cheat sheet to help us get our poetry on. The catch is, at least to my mind, that every one of these quick poetry tips and starters depends on you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blocked by Perfectionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfectionism is such a fabulous trap. It sounds so lofty and pure and worthy to insist on our creative work being perfect.  But aiming for perfection means there is always some aspect yet to be fixed, yet another detail to improve, tweak, polish, fine-tune, finesse… This obsessive mindset or standard or expectation means that [...]]]></description>
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