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		<title>7 Things I Learned Last Week from Stephen King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love ghost stories.
Particularly the whole gothic genre of the nineteenth century: intense questioning of reality layered with beautiful houses and dramatic landscapes and sometimes hilariously-dated kitsch. I&#8217;ve read all of Mrs. Radcliffe. Whooee!
I especially love the whole concept that my love for ghost stories is the other side of my utter yellow-bellied, chicken-livered response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Things My Grandmother Said About Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of having given up sleep last week (apparently after fifty years you&#8217;ve had all the sleep you need), I&#8217;m going to introduce you today to my grandmother, to whom I was very close and who gave me most of the instructions that now guide my life. She didn&#8217;t actually say any of these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/01/23/11-things-my-grandmother-said-about-writing/</link>
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		<title>107 Things You Should Know About Being Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re jumping in the Way-Back Machine today. This was the very first of my numbered-list posts&#8212;from January, 2010&#8212;and the comments are still some of my favorites!

You&#8217;re not going to get rich. You&#8217;re probably not even going to be able to pay your bills. In fact, money is going to turn out to be the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/01/16/107-things-you-should-know-about-being-published/</link>
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		<title>New advice column on Writer Unboxed</title>
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Ask Victoria.
That&#8217;s what Therese Walsh dubbed it when we came up with the idea of an editor&#8217;s advice column on the new, up-coming Writer Unboxed newsletter. 
We&#8217;d been wanting to collaborate for a long time, take our guest appearances on each other&#8217;s blogs to the next level.
As soon as we thought of moving my advice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/01/13/new-advice-column-on-writer-unboxed/</link>
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		<title>10 Ways Writing Fiction is Like Performing for a Camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, guys, I just spent the entire day trying to develop video for this blog. Guess what? That&#8217;s right. So let&#8217;s talk about how my experiment with video mimics the experience of writing fiction:


It always seems like such a good idea at the time.
Who has not begun a story with the gripping, overwhelming conviction that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/01/09/10-ways-writing-fiction-is-like-performing-for-a-camera/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating New Year&#8217;s Day 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A writer falls over a cliff and is clinging helplessly to a vine while two editors crouch on the edge, shouting advice. Suddenly the writer sees the most beautiful strawberry in the world just out of reach.
“Reach for it!” cries the first editor. “A perfect thing is worth the sacrifice of your life!”
“Don’t reach for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2012/01/02/celebrating-new-years-day-2012/</link>
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		<title>How to Find the Meaning of Life through Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We call this week between the holiday and the New Year &#8220;time out of time&#8221; at our house. It’s our annual step outside the tide of daily struggle and strife to stop and think and search again for the peace in our lives. In the same vein, we’ve been talking here for the last few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2011/12/26/how-to-find-the-meaning-of-life-through-writing/</link>
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		<title>How to Find Community through Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’ll be the Winter Solstice in a few days, which is the holiday we celebrate at our house. We’re pretty tired of the dark by the time the sun gets to the end of its tether every year, and we’re pretty darn excited about sunlight coming back into our lives again. It takes its toll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2011/12/19/how-to-find-community-through-writing/</link>
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		<title>How to Find Gratitude through Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we found Joy &#038; Fulfillment through Writing. And it was good.
So this week let’s respond to that joy &#038; fulfillment. Because everything about being writers is about cause-&#038;-effect, even living the life.
Let&#8217;s be grateful.
Recognize the source.
Sometimes it’s the littlest things.
I know I’ve mentioned once or twice before a ceremony we do at our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2011/12/12/how-to-find-gratitude-through-writing/</link>
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		<title>How to Find Joy &amp; Fulfillment through Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not here this month&#8212;December is my month to go offline every year and watch my son grow up. He’s already within a few inches of me in height now, meaning I really don’t have any time to lose. So I’ll be blogging in absentia a series of posts on how to find everything you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://victoriamixon.com/2011/12/05/how-to-find-joy-fulfillment-through-writing/</link>
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