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	<description>TIPS FOR THE ASPIRING WRITER</description>
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		<title>Open Book: An Ending for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/12/24/open-book-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizing Your Writing Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   Happy Holidays! We are about to witness the passing of another year.  I suspect there will be many changes in 2012. You can feel it in the air.  It starts with the economy, the political unrest on the national level and eventually trickles down into our homes and our daily lives.  Some people hate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: How to Create An Elevator Pitch for Your Novel</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/11/16/elevator-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.corichu.com/blog/?p=530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[        My long time friend asked me what my novel was about.  I stammered and blurted out some incoherent description. (Don&#8217;t laugh! At least I remembered to mention the protagonist.)     This brain freeze, unlike Governer Rick Perry, was not a matter of forgetting, but a matter of not having a succinct pitch scripted.     What if that had been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid Email Hubris and Costly Fines</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/29/avoid-email-hubris-costly-fines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/29/avoid-email-hubris-costly-fines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keep It Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World of Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulk email distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cori]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Can Spam Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[      Email hubris is spamming your friends and everyone else in your contact database without their consent. Like trying to resist a danish with coffee in the morning, it is hard to contain your enthusiasm.  You want to share the next great product or service with everyone.       To keep you in check from spewing forth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: Is Blogging Overrated?</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/18/open-book-blogging-overrated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/18/open-book-blogging-overrated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizing Your Writing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World of Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After blogging for a couple of years now, I am wondering if blogging is overrated.  Yes, as a writer, you would think that this process is a no brainer and enjoyable.  But in truth, it steals time from my day, from my other writing and reading, and although pleasurable, may or may not be all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: Blog Content Basics</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/08/open-book-blogging-content-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World of Blogging]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.corichu.com/blog/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No two brands of ketchup taste the same.  The basic ingredients may be similar &#8212; tomatoes (or tomato concentrate), sugar, vinegar, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, etc.  &#8212; but the taste differences lie in the ingredient quality and proportion. And so it is with your blog.  Your blog site is uniquely yours even though there may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: Quick Ways to Get Your Blog Read</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/05/open-book-blog-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/09/05/open-book-blog-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World of Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writer&#8230;the teacher&#8230;the marketing guru in you emerges in a spanking  new blog. I was told that if you write, the followers will come.  True to some degree; however, your success will be measurably better if you write coherently and have something interesting to share (your opinion or some newsworthy mention).   Well written blogs may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: How to Put a Writer&#8217;s Press Kit Together</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/28/open-book-put-writers-press-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/28/open-book-put-writers-press-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.corichu.com/blog/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  What do you want your image to  be? One way to craft your image as a writer is creating a press kit.  Simply, a press kit is a collection of one-page documents that highlights your newest publication, a little bit about yourself, and other related accomplishments.  The book market is fierce. You are your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: 3 Great Reasons for an Unpublished Novelist to Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/22/create-blog-written/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/22/create-blog-written/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World of Blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People blog for many reasons, but for the unpublished novelist, blogging is a no brainer. I can’t remember which self-help guru wrote that if you want to be a novelist, you have to do what novelist do. If you imitate the behaviors of novelist, you will one day be that novelist.  One of the behaviors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: How to Transfer a Library e-book to Your NOOK</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/07/open-book-borrow-library-e-book-transfer-nook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/07/open-book-borrow-library-e-book-transfer-nook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Talk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nook transfer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I do not consider myself a tech person, I am not a newbie either.  However, when I first tried to transfer a library e-book to my NOOK,  I was having some difficulty.  I looked on the Barnes and Noble website, the library website, called BN and my local library.  Everyone was  helpful, but not quite enough. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: Grammar Rules You Can Break</title>
		<link>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/03/open-book-grammar-rules-break/</link>
		<comments>http://www.corichu.com/blog/2011/08/03/open-book-grammar-rules-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever write a sentence and wonder if it was acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition?  Or begin a sentence with a conjunction?  Or write the way we talk?  Me too.  Even though I have seen magazines, printed articles, and newspapers write in an informal style, bucking up against Strunk and White&#8217;s Elements [...]]]></description>
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