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	<title>The Poetry of Living Fully &#187; self-improvement</title>
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		<title>Found: Ten Million Dollar Writing Advice (Hiding in a Book Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of our Wellness and Writing Immersion Retreat in Tuscany, one of our participants gave me a book. She liked it and recommended that I read it. It&#8217;s now a few months later and I&#8217;ve finally had a chance to get to it. The book is Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow. [...]
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		<title>Look to the Outliers for Guidance on Nonfiction Book Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do what everybody else is doing, you&#8217;ll get the most common result. The most common result = &#8220;not enough people read my stuff and pay me money.&#8221; That&#8217;s OK, but it&#8217;s so much nicer to connect with people who are genuine and assured they&#8217;re on the right path no matter what external results [...]
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<li><a href='http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2011/01/08/you-there-stop-hiding-behind-your-books/' rel='bookmark' title='You, There! Stop Hiding Behind Your Books.'>You, There! Stop Hiding Behind Your Books.</a> <small>Writers tend to be less social than other creatures. This...</small></li>
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		<title>To Go to Mountains Seeking Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the mountain seeking enlightenment. There was no enlightenment on the mountain. In desolation, I cried out and there came an echo. I shouted again. The echo came again. - Soen Nakagawa]]></description>
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		<title>Take an Online Writing Class at WritingImmersion.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time this year working on my new year&#8217;s resolution to put together twenty book-length creative projects, and I&#8217;m happy to say that I&#8217;m going to be able to exceed that goal by a longshot. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun, because during most of the time that I spend writing, [...]
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		<title>Offset Your Carbon Footprint By Planting Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 03:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, I will be coordinating three Wellness and Writing Immersion Retreats in Italy. This winter, we&#8217;ll have a retreat in Mexico and then one in Tobago. And the next summer, there will be retreats in Bali as well as Italy. These events obviously require participants to travel by air. In many cases, participants will [...]
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		<title>Wellness Immersion Retreats in Italy and the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<title>Eros and the Erotics of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all read a lot of How To titles. Here are more. For my third book for 2011, I came up with a collection of one liners, each beginning with the two words &#8220;How&#8221; and &#8220;To,&#8221; one immediately following the other. Examples: How to make your own rainforest out of recycled Washington Posts How to [...]
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		<title>What we look for in successful applications</title>
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