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		<title>4 Reasons My Cat Can&#8217;t Be a Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m gone again. (I&#8217;m actually perennially off in my own little world, but that&#8217;s not what I mean.) We&#8217;ve headed to the San Francisco Bay Area this past weekend for O&#8217;Reilly Publishing&#8217;s Maker Faire, which if you don&#8217;t know about it you should. Maker Faire is based on O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Make magazine, and it&#8217;s a huge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/05/21/4-reasons-my-cat-cant-be-a-writer/</link>
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		<title>Body of Kindness, by Stu Wakefield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, all you mothers of children and all you people with mothers! The rest of you&#8212;those of you who hatched from eggs&#8212;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to you too!
We always celebrate Mother&#8217;s Day at our house as a day of gratitude, and I have some serious gratitude to express today.
Last week I was finishing up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/05/14/body-of-kindness-by-stu-wakefield/</link>
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		<title>5 Reasons My Cat Should Be the Writer Instead of Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cats don&#8217;t act as though you&#8217;re the one bright ray of sunlight in an otherwise clouded existence.&#8212;Raymond Chandler	
You all know my cat. He sits on my blog banner staring into space with the studied expression of someone who is being prevented from walking on a desk he knows perfectly well he walks on all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/05/07/5-reasons-my-cat-should-be-the-writer-instead-of-me/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s pretend WHAT never happened?the Bloggess interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You guys, I interviewed Jenny almost two years ago about humor writing, being a humor writer, eating other humorists, and&#8212;especially&#8212;the book she was writing at the time. Well, guess what? Last week Jenny&#8217;s memoir hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. So all of you who were saying two years ago, &#8220;Jenny, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/30/lets-pretend-what-never-happenedthe-bloggess-interview/</link>
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		<title>7 Reasons to Be Grateful You&#8217;re a Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this one day a long time ago out of sheer, overwhelming gratitude for my craft.
And you know what? 
I&#8217;m still grateful.


You have all the tools you need 
They&#8217;re right there at your disposal: the world, your five senses, literacy, a brain. You will never need anything more.


All you have to do is be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/23/7-reasons-to-be-grateful-youre-a-writer/</link>
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		<title>The 2 Ways Writing Keeps You Off the Streets &amp; Out of the Bars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago when I used to hang out all the time in the bars of San Luis Obispo, California, a good friend and I were sitting on the curb outside our favorite dive with our feet in the gutter at around midnight one night talking deep in our cups the talk of life.
&#8220;Victoria,&#8221; he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/16/the-2-ways-writing-keeps-you-off-the-streets-out-of-the-bars/</link>
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		<title>3 More Things to Know About Exposition &amp; Telling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We talked last week about an alarmingly bizarre piece of writing advice one of my clients got from an agent in response to her requested full manuscript. We also talked about exposition &#038; telling and why they&#8217;re pretty much exactly the same thing, even though I know we out here in the bathosphere of professional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/09/3-more-things-to-know-about-exposition-telling/</link>
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		<title>Going Beyond the Beyond: guest post on Creative Flux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terre Britton of Creative Flux has been working with me since November on getting this excerpt from The Art &#038; Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner&#8217;s Manual posted on her blog. You&#8217;d think&#8212;being two grown businesswomen&#8212;we could manage it, but it turns out when you want something done just right, you know, it&#8217;s worth taking the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/06/going-beyond-the-beyond-guest-post-on-creative-flux/</link>
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		<title>3 Things to Know About Exposition &amp; Telling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bizarre thing happened to a client of mine the other day.
This writer that it happened to is one of my best clients. She’s been writing all her life. She has a fabulous imagination and sees her characters moving and acting and speaking with wonderful vividness. She’s written lots of screenplays, so her dialog is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/04/02/3-things-to-know-about-exposition-telling/</link>
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		<title>Encumbered by Idjits: a guest post on Writer Unboxed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I was trading email with the fabulous Therese Walsh of Writer Unboxed about the guest post I was writing for them, and we were kvetching about the state of the publishing industry, and I quoted that one great line out of the otherwise completely forgettable 1980s movie, Young Guns II.
You know the line.
And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/03/29/encumbered-by-idjits-a-guest-post-on-writer-unboxed/</link>
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