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		<title>Writing to Change the World</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2010/05/14/writing-change-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Vicki Cobb posted on the I.N.K. (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids) blog about writing to change the world. I&#8217;ve been pondering this post for days. On one hand I think all authors, especially those of us who right nonfiction for kids, are trying to change the world to some degree (maybe more than Vicki alludes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good news: ONE IS ENOUGH won an award!</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2010/04/16/good-news-won-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I was so busy gushing about the conference awesomeness I forgot to mention the best news of all! My manuscript for ONE IS ENOUGH, a picture-book biography about Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, was one of those nominated for the SCBWI Western Washington 2010 Outstanding Work-in-Progress awards! Here&#8217;s the official slide: This award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCBWI conferences: so many kinds of awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally starting to be able to come down from the high that was last weekend&#8217;s SCBWI Western Washington&#8217;s Writing and Illustrating for Children conference. After an extended period of not enough sleep, too much forced extroversion, and total detail overwhelm, I expected to be exhausted, but instead I was completely energized. It was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, sweet rejection</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2010/03/30/ah-sweet-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My goal for this year is to receive as many as rejections as possible. I can be a little&#8212;okay, a lot&#8212;perfectionistic about where and when I send out submissions, so the intention of this goal was to push me to accomplish the part of publishing that I can control, submitting, and let go of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poem for writers</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2010/03/18/a-poem-for-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, my daughter had some fun writing limericks. Here is my favorite: Writing Write I will, forever still, you, me creativity is the key, Oh, write I will. Ah, a girl after my own heart. I guess the apple doesn&#8217;t fall far from the tree in this case!]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Scribblings #194: People Who Dared</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/12/20/sunday-scribblings-194-people-who-dared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prompt over at Sunday Scribblings today is dare. My first instinct was to write a spontaneous short fiction vignette—that is what prompts are all about, right? But, while I consider writing fiction a useful practice to improve my skills as well as a rewarding creative endeavor in its own right, my real passion is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magical realism assignment: garden prompt</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/12/14/magical-realism-assignment-garden-prompt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the interests of pushing myself out of my comfort zone, I recently finished a class in magical realism. It was drastically different from anything I&#8217;ve done (or even read, really) before, and the results were, well, interesting. The final assignment was this: &#8220;For this assignment, take the notion of a garden (well tended or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, no, no #NaNoWriMo for me!</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/10/25/no-no-no-nanowrimo-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/10/25/no-no-no-nanowrimo-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big topic in the writing world this time of year is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in which aspiring writers are encouraged to churn out 50,000 words of rough draft in 30 days. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype, but after weeks of consideration and days of agonizing, I’ve finally decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Word Challenge 2009!</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/09/18/halloween-word-challenge-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kimberly Baker, superfriend and member of the dynamic trio, has challenged me to a war of words. She knows I need a swift kick in the *** to get a first draft down (especially of a fiction novel&#8211;gasp!), but she may not know just how competitive I can be. Even if I lose, though, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathroom remodel #1</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2009/03/03/bathroom-remodel-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your bathroom sing to you? Mine does! Well, it does now anyway. But first, here are the ugly &#8220;before&#8221; pictures (definitely no singing here, just a bad case of the blahs!): &#160;   Then, there are the super-cool &#8220;during&#8221; pictures (&#8220;Hi ho, hi ho, it&#8217;s off to work we go!&#8221;): &#160;   And finally, [...]]]></description>
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