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	<title>A Creative Way Out of Work&#187; Non-fiction</title>
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	<description>A creative workplace for Valerie Poulin.</description>
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		<title>Crabapples and a Rainy Saturday Afternoon</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/11/06/crabapples-and-a-rainy-saturday-afternoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, I was overly fascinated with keys—not the jangly kinds that unlock doors and secret diaries and stash boxes—the kind you find on antique cash registers, typewriters, and adding machines. For whatever tactile pleasure these mechanical devices provided I may never ]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Profit from Your Intuition?</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/10/23/can-you-profit-from-your-intuition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intuition is generally understood to be: knowledge instantly obtained through the senses, based on neither logic nor reason, and without thinking about it such as impressions or perceptions. Intuitive ability has even been used interchangeably with psychic ability.]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Friends: Resolving a Case of Copy Jitters</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/09/18/imaginary-friends-resolving-a-case-of-copy-jitters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I found myself asking NYC blogger Maud Newton :about the way she might approach writing a profile of several writers.]]></description>
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		<title>Working Backward Moves Writing Forward</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/09/04/working-backward-moves-writing-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mississippi crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many creative writing hobbyists, too often I have to put personal projects on hold in favour of paid work. For me, paid work means professional writing assignments.]]></description>
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		<title>Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/22/advice-like-youth-probably-wasted-on-the-young/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/08/22/advice-like-youth-probably-wasted-on-the-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[class of '97]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune; June 1, 1997

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		<title>Quotations</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/07/25/quotations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical writing is like poetry.
Everyone wants to write it. No one wants to read it.
—Valerie (Poulin) Bean
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		<title>Can journalling be an effective planning tool?</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/06/05/can-journalling-be-an-effective-planning-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion about the benefits of using Julia Cameron's "Morning Pages" in a business environment.]]></description>
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		<title>Ease the Burden of Weekend Writing</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/05/29/weekend-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/05/29/weekend-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 05:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bring your technical writing process to your personal projects to help ease a burden that is inherent in weekend writing: time.]]></description>
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		<title>Annual contribution not enough</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/04/03/annual-contribution-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/04/03/annual-contribution-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Poulin award]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thunder Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The past year has been difficult given the state of the economy&#8230;.&#8221;
That line appeared in a letter I received from Lakehead University that accompanied an endowment report for The Robert Poulin Memorial Award for Outstanding Citizenship. The endowment fund, it seems, is in financial trouble and due to the state of the financial markets, is unable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s unexpected in midlife? A second, unpaid job.</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/03/20/whats-unexpected-in-midlife-a-second-unpaid-job/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/03/20/whats-unexpected-in-midlife-a-second-unpaid-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently asked me what is the funniest, most surprising or unexpected thing about being midlife. “Midlife????!!!” I responded. “Who says I’m midlife?”]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Editors and Writers-in-Residence</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/03/08/wir-and-editors/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/03/08/wir-and-editors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betty Jane Wylie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips for getting the most from your time with editors-for-hire and writers-in-residence.]]></description>
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		<title>Writer inspired to find creative way out of work</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/02/27/writer-inspired-to-find-creative-way-out-of-work/</link>
		<comments>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/02/27/writer-inspired-to-find-creative-way-out-of-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dispatches from the edge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ophra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Oprah posed the question, Anderson Cooper’s Dispatches from the Edge urged me to action.]]></description>
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