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		<title>Lost Among the Stacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True to my word, I have been reading more than I have been writing this year. I read Jane Smiley&#8217;s A Thousand Acres for the thousandth time, but this time I studied it, marking each scene. Then I paid my friendly neighborhood library a visit. It&#8217;s noisier there than I would like, but the deeper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=128</link>
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		<title>It Was a Very Good Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January I made a resolution to begin The Great American Novel. And I have. From the end of August until this very morning, I have tried my hardest to write each day. Some days life interferes, but I haven&#8217;t let that prevent me from writing the next day.  Sometimes the Internal Editor interferes, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=125</link>
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		<title>I am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone once told me that &#8220;I am&#8221; is the most powerful statement you can make: I am strong, I am a woman, I am a writer. Begin a sentence with &#8220;I am&#8221; and you announce your intent to define yourself. I constantly define, redefine, overdefine myself. &#8220;I am fluid.&#8221; At the same time I reject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=119</link>
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		<title>The Fount of Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week a friend asked me where I came up with my ideas. What I write (ideas) and what drives me to write about it (inspiration) are two separate things (see my earlier post for more on inspiration). I can get an idea from anything. Sometimes ideas come to me out of thin air, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Stay in Character, Will Ya?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned awhile back that I&#8217;m having some trouble with one of my characters. She keeps talking back to me, trying to go rogue. The good news is I&#8217;ve managed to shut the Inernal Editor up enough that she&#8217;s only a distant buzzing in my mind, and I can write, write, write. Now my biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Where O Where Did October Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life keeps passing me by. I slog through the mundane, the routine of daily living, and suddenly so much time has passed and I have so little to show for it. Take this October, for instance. Early in the month, Jake got sick, then Anna did, then I did. Among the three of us the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=107</link>
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		<title>Fits Like A Glove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it is a glove. It fits my hand perfectly, so I&#8217;m sure it will fit my mother (for whom, if you remember, I am making a these for Christmas): The stitch marker in the middle is where I&#8217;m considering a bit of embellishment. Originally I wanted to work an intarsia snowflake there, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Loyalty, Pride and Good Sportmanship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a Cub fan (they are the best team in baseball, but I was born a Die-Hard). And I used to say that the only thing worse than a Sox fan is someone who won&#8217;t commit to either team. But to tell the truth I am pretty hard pressed to find a Sox fan that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Depriving My Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anna is learning to read in Kindergarten. This week, one of the ways in which the students are encouraged to read is through the use of environmental words. The child can &#8220;read&#8221; a word simply because of his familiarity of it within his environment. For example, most early readers are able to read McDonald&#8217;s just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Off Walden Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old friend and fellow writer stopped by the other night, and she told me about an acquaintance of hers that was living the writer&#8217;s dream: he&#8217;d rented a cabin in which to do nothing but sleep and write. Apparently a lot of writers are going all Walden Pond and holing up in a cabin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beth.norrises.org/?p=88</link>
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