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		<title>Oscar Micheaux: Indie Author (and a Goodreads giveaway!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Micheaux, the focus of my children&#8217;s historical novel, Oscar&#8217;s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux,  not only broke ground as a homesteader and filmmaker, he also was an indie author. Patrick McGilligan writes in his biography of Micheaux that after receiving only &#8220;bulky rejections,&#8221; Oscar eventually self-published his first novel, The Conquest: The Story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5544&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Have To Keep On Writing, Even When You&#8217;re Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Page After Page: Discover the Confidence & Passion You Need to Start Writing & Keep Writing (No Matter What)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”  ― Friedrich Nietzsche This post is for a friend who is struggling with her writing at the moment. Sometimes we all feel like chucking it in. We think about how much easier our life would be without the urge to write, the need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5521&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christine Fonseca&#8217;s New Group Blog: An Intense Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Christine Fonseca and I have a lot in common (I can&#8217;t believe we haven&#8217;t met in person&#8230;. yet), but what I don&#8217;t have and wish I did are her seemingly limitless energy and ability to get things done.  I am honored to be a part of a Christine&#8217;s new group blog, An Intense Life: Embracing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5510&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prioritizing What Is Important and Non-Urgent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Generally speaking, having a good work/life balance means that your actions and priorities are aligned in a way that is taking care of what is really important to you.&#8221; ~ Stephen R. Covey Several years ago, a family of four lived across from us, and the daughter one day came over for a visit. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5500&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We go both round and upward: Why every writer should attend writer&#8217;s conferences</title>
		<link>http://lisarivero.com/2012/02/11/we-go-both-round-and-upward-why-every-writer-should-attend-writers-conferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5484&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Minority Approach to Writing, by E. Victoria Flynn</title>
		<link>http://lisarivero.com/2012/02/08/e-victoria-flynn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from Lisa: I am thrilled today to share a guest post by fellow Wisconsin author E. Victoria Flynn. Read more about her and her fantastically creative online artists&#8217; cafe in the bio, below, and be sure to connect with her on Twitter and Facebook. A Minority Approach to Writing by E. Victoria Flynn Natalie Goldberg [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5418&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Fast and Slow</title>
		<link>http://lisarivero.com/2012/02/05/writing-fast-and-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am patiently waiting for my husband to finish reading Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, so that I can have my turn. In the meantime, I guess I&#8217;ll make some oatmeal. After enjoying the most smooth, richly textured hot breakfast cereal imaginable on our trips to London over the years, I finally decided to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5472&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Micheaux&#8217;s Gift,&#8221; from South Dakota Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I get ready for a series of posts this month about Oscar Micheaux, I was very happy to see this notice from the latest issue of South Dakota Magazine:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5460&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wanna Play? Choose your favorite LEGO design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you played, really played, as in tuned out the rest of the world and joined your hands and imagination for the sake of nothing more than fun? Earlier this quarter, just before the holiday break, I gave small groups of students in my Creative Thinking class piles of assorted LEGO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5426&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News and Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life has been busy, in a good way, so here are some quick updates and links until I have time to write a more meaty post. ADHD Diagnoses in Young Gifted Children As a board member for SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted), I am eager to promote our new global public awareness campaign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisarivero.com&amp;blog=13131060&amp;post=5412&amp;subd=lisarivero&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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