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		<title>Every Third Weekend: a way to save your local indie</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/25/every-third-weekend-a-way-to-save-your-local-indie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I was crashing and my beloved knew it. He suggested we take Martin Luther King day off and go to Denver&#8211;wander through the new Ikea store to see if we might find some storage for our basement, maybe. More importantly, we would go hang out at The Tattered Cover bookstore. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindly, kindly look toward the new year</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2012/01/01/kindly-kindly-look-toward-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time every year, we are bombarded with exhortations and advice on ways to change ourselves for the better, to become a NEW! IMPROVED! BETTER! version of ourselves. It’s the curse of a society that genuinely believes that anyone can achieve anything—if they try hard enough. This column is not about that, because you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Indie Star Barbara Freethy</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/11/29/an-interview-with-indie-star-barbara-freethy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Barbara O&#8217;Neal:  I am delighted to have had the chance to interview my friend Barbara Freethy, who has experienced a truly astonishing trajectory as an Indie publisher this year. A traditionally published author for two decades, Barbara started experimenting with indie publishing late last year. Listen in as she talks about her journey, her [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thankful for the Writing Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 23 years ago, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I sold my first book. This is what I remember: it was overcast and gloomy, my favorite kind of weather, so my children were playing with Play-doh at the table and I was writing in the mini office I had set up in the dining room. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to find your way to writing success? PLAY!</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/10/26/how-to-find-your-way-to-writing-success-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I attended a conference for long-time published writers, where a host of industry insiders offered their insights on the changing face of publishing. Because of the NINC standards (only authors with two books or more published can join) and the desire to keep the discussion vibrant and flowing, I can’t share many details, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fruit of our Lives</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/28/the-fruit-of-our-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, it is the last morning of summer. My yearling kittens are crouched in the garden, watching a squirrel on the fence make his way through the face of a sunflower, methodically plucking out striped seeds with his tiny hands, cracking their shells, devouring the kernels. There are piles of hulls, here [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shhh! The Girls in the Basement are sleeping! *</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/08/24/shhh-the-girls-in-the-basement-are-sleeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally turned in a final draft of my next novel, The Garden of Happy Endings. It has been a bear. Not kidding. I know that I whine about all of them, but this one really was hard. It was a subject I have not tackled before, and the narrative required a lot from me, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turn It Off</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/07/27/turn-it-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my writing classes, I often suggest to writers that they turn off the internet until they have written their pages for the day. Better yet, turn it off completely on a regular basis and do other things. This has become more and more challenging for all of us. More and more of our world [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Sex</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/06/22/lets-talk-about-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or two ago, I was watching a movie On Demand and switched back to network television. It was a crime show, and I happened to come into a scene that featured a man discovering the dead body of a woman who had been murdered. She had clearly died violently. The depiction was violent and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>So you want to be a professional writer</title>
		<link>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/25/so-you-want-to-be-a-professional-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://writerunboxed.com/2011/05/25/so-you-want-to-be-a-professional-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 06:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O'Neal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does that fantasy look like to you? How does it look when you project the image of your professional writer self into the future five years, or ten? Before I cracked the ranks, I’m not sure what I thought about what my actual life would look like. As a girl, I’d read a novel [...]]]></description>
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