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		<title>Write Yourself Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman who recently lost her husband in a car accident takes pen in hand and begins writing. She writes for hours without stopping. She writes the following day and the day after that. She screams her pain and outrage onto the paper. She transubstantiates her tears into ink and weeps them onto page after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honest Words About Semicolons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve discussed semicolons before, but when I read what Bill Walsh, of the Washington Post, said about them, I knew I had to take another shot. In his book, Lapsing Into a Comma, he wrote: 
The semicolon is an ugly bastard, and thus I tend to avoid it.
This is what I’ve always wanted to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/honest-words-about-semicolons</link>
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		<title>How to Write Someone’s Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When writing a person’s age, my first suggestion is to exercise extreme caution. 
Someone who has spent a fortune to look 40 and wants people to think she is 30 is not likely to thank you when you tell the world she is 50. 
My next suggestion is more technical: Always use numerals to indicate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/how-to-write-someone%e2%80%99s-age</link>
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		<title>The Angels and Demons of the Rules of Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever watch the old cartoons where the character would be trying to make a decision and suddenly there were two miniature images of himself above and to the side of his head and one was dressed as an angel telling him to do the right thing and the other was dressed as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/the-angels-and-demons-of-the-rules-of-writing</link>
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		<title>It Won&#8217;t Kill Your Cat, But It Will Get Their Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your first job as a writer is to get the attention of your audience. Until you do that – until you make them read what you’ve written – you can’t achieve whatever objectives you’re trying to accomplish.  
One of the best ways to capture readers’ interest is to make them so curious that they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/it-wont-kill-your-cat-but-it-will-get-their-attention</link>
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		<title>Is It Over … or More Than?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably figured out by now that I have a passion for pointing out common writing mistakes. This no doubt springs from the guilt I feel for making those same blunders so often during my professional writing career. All I can say is, “I’m deeply sorry, clients and editors, but not enough to issue refunds.”
Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Nothing Is Better Than Both</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Senator John Edwards was interviewed on National Public Radio. As he talked about his initiative to alleviate poverty in America, I heard him say, “We need to mobilize and energize both Americans who are committed to this issue and …” (He went on to mention who else needed to be mobilized and energized.)
When the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/when-nothing-is-better-than-both</link>
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		<title>The Magic of Timed, Nonstop Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a wonderful exercise for getting off the starting block quickly when you have something to write. It’s called timed, nonstop writing and here’s how to do it:
	

Get in front of your screen or paper.
Start writing whatever comes to your mind about what you want or need to write about.
Don’t stop writing for anything for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/the-magic-of-timed-nonstop-writing</link>
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		<title>Commas and Wedged-In Sentence Parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of simple sentences, such as …
	

The loan shark was the most affable of men.
Don’t eat before the potatoes are cooked.


But sentences are not always simple. We often wedge extra words or phrases in, making them more complicated. When parenthetical expressions, clauses, etc. are wedge into otherwise simple sentences, we call on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thewritersbag.com/writing-techniques/commas-and-wedged-in-sentence-parts</link>
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