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		<title>Taking your blogging offline</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/07/19/taking-your-blogging-offline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily life is full of distractions. And those distractions can get in the way of you writing a killer (or just good) blog post. Why not eliminate some of those distractions and do your blogging offline? Step Away From the Keyboard Blogging offline. That doesn&#8217;t seem to make much sense. Blogging is supposed to be [...]


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		<title>I don&#8217;t feel like writing today</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/07/12/i-dont-feel-like-writing-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m tired. I&#8217;m not inspired. Everything I tap out is garbage. The stars aren&#8217;t right. Well, tough. Ditch the excuses and get writing. Writing is a habit (OK, it&#8217;s more than that), and it&#8217;s definitely something that you need to do every day. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you write 100 word or 1,000. Just get [...]


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<li><a href='http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2009/06/29/effectively-presenting-information/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Effectively presenting information, no matter what you&#8217;re writing'>Effectively presenting information, no matter what you&#8217;re writing</a></li>
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		<title>Do you whine or improve?</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/07/05/1560/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to take a trip down memory lane &#8230; As you probably know, I&#8217;ve been writing professionally for quite a few years. In the early days, I gathered together quite the collection of rejection slips. Far more rejections than assignments, by a wide margin. It was, at times, disheartening but I soldiered on. Over the [...]


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<li><a href='http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/03/31/four-simple-subtle-ways-to-improve-your-writing/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Four simple, subtle ways to improve your writing'>Four simple, subtle ways to improve your writing</a></li>
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		<title>Partial success and the writer</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/06/23/partial-success-and-the-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I wrote a pair of posts on giving up and embracing failure. For some, those are depressing topics. But they&#8217;re topics we all have to face at some time or another. You&#8217;ll notice that I don&#8217;t write much about success. Mainly because success has become an all-or-nothing proposition. Sadly, we live in [...]


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<li><a href='http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/02/17/the-quality-of-your-failures-can-determine-the-quality-of-your-success/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Embrace failure'>Embrace failure</a></li>
<li><a href='http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2008/01/29/writing-and-presentations/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Writing and presentations'>Writing and presentations</a></li>
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		<title>How long should a blog post be?</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/06/02/how-long-should-a-blog-post-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get asked this question a lot. Some would-be bloggers I&#8217;ve spoken to harbour the idea that there is some magical number of words that a blog post should contain. You reach that word count and your posts are a wonder to see and to read. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not that simple. To be honest, I [...]


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		<title>Stepping into the freelance world</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/05/05/stepping-into-the-freelance-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, someone (usually someones) ask me about what they’d have to do to become a freelance writer. With the economy doing some strange gymnastics over the last 18 months or so, I&#8217;ve been asked that question a bit more. So, I started to plan out a series of posts on this subject. Then [...]


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		<title>Four simple, subtle ways to improve your writing</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/03/31/four-simple-subtle-ways-to-improve-your-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to count the number of paths you can take to improve your writing. Most of the ones that people tend to focus on tend to require a lot of effort and concentration. Nothing wrong with that &#8212; learning to write well isn&#8217;t an easy task. But there are many other ways in which [...]


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		<title>Editing: the secret to good writing</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/02/22/editing-the-secret-to-good-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If writers were like magicians, I&#8217;d probably be blackballed from whatever organization I&#8217;d belonged to for what I&#8217;m about to write. After speaking at a conference last year, I was talking to one of the people who attended my session about creating minimalist documentation. Although he wasn&#8217;t a writer, he had to create documentation. During [...]


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		<title>Sometimes, you have to break the rules</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/02/08/sometimes-you-have-to-break-the-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t matter what your high school English teacher said. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your university composition instructor said. And it definitely doesn&#8217;t matter what Microsoft Word&#8217;s grammar checker tells you. When writing, there are times when you need to break the rules. Shocking. Perhaps even sacrilegious. But why do it? There are a number [...]


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		<title>Sharing your (writing) files online</title>
		<link>http://scottnesbitt.net/weblog/2010/02/01/sharing-your-writing-files-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s something I&#8217;m not always keen on. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have nothing against sharing. It&#8217;s just that things can go badly. I prefer to use a wiki or Google Docs to collaborate. But not everyone I work with thinks like me, or is comfortable with the range of tools that I&#8217;m comfortable with. [...]


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