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		<title>Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 21:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a difficult post, and something I&#8217;m having a hard time reconciling with, so please bear with me. Open Letter&#8211; to whom it may concern How can you get rid of me like this, toss me out as if I never meant a thing to you? Have you forgotten the laughter, the words we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5328&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Stories Don’t Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But have you written a novel yet? I got asked that question often when I was writing short stories. What is it about novels that people assume every writer wants to write them? Is there a certain prestige for the writer who can add “novelist” to their CV?  Forget the fact that short stories are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5308&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blast From the Past :The Royals&#8211; 1939</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/blast-from-the-past-the-royals-1939/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 08:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1939]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers never know where their source of inspiration will come from. For some time now, I’ve been interested in some old Standard magazines that were given to us many years ago. These magazines were saved by my husband’s grandmother when the King and Queen came to Canada in 1939. Since the main character in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5281&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Klout&#8211;Why Should I Even Care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/?p=5273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I started receiving emails from Klout.  Okay, so these things don&#8217;t just happen out of the blue for no reason. I acknowledge that. Apparently I signed up for it, bright cookie that I am, but forgot I had. I do have a vague recollection of this awhile back. I mean, you hear about something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5273&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Contests—Are They Worth Entering?</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/writing-contests-are-they-worth-entering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[final]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email from a literary journal, announcing an extension on their fiction contest made me wonder how many of you have entered such contests over the years. I’m referring to contests for unpublished manuscripts. To my knowledge, publishing companies submit books for awards on the author’s behalf&#8211;that was certainly the case with my book. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5269&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Writer Hear Me Roar!</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/i-am-writer-hear-me-roar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[believe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just so you know, I wasn’t doing any roaring twenty years ago when I first started writing.  The sound I was making was more like the soft whispered cries of a day old kitten. Privately I was happy to be writing, even feeling as though I had just as much right to be doing so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5264&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oak Island Revenge</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/oak-island-revenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daphne Greer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lost on Briar Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxed Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nimbus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oak Island Revenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orca.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penelope Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pirate treasure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Fossil of Sydney Mines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today we were city bound. A bit of a birthday celebration for our son, and to attend the book launch for Oak Island Revenge. The book was written by author, Cynthia D&#8217;Entremont, and is a mystery set on, you guess it, Oak Island. For anyone reading this who hasn&#8217;t heard of Oak Island it&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5246&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jesus T-shirt</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/the-jesus-t-shirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banning books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should probably put a warning on this post. “Content is highly controversial.” Now I know that there are two taboo subjects that we should never bring up, politics and religion. Understand I didn’t write this post to spark any religious debate. What I’m curious about is your feelings on freedom of expression. “Your Life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5237&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nests</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/5231/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 23:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.G Holland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~~J.G. Holland Today, I found my first robin nest of the season and thought I&#8217;d share it with you. There&#8217;s something about finding pretty blue eggs in a  nest that brings joy to my heart. I love finding these gifts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5231&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Update</title>
		<link>http://lauraabest.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/facebook-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Best</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I blogged about facebook a few posts ago, I just thought I’d let you all know that I decided to go with an author’s page. Right or wrong, the decision’s been made. I know some of you are already aware of this because you’re on my personal facebook account. If in time I realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraabest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8278956&#038;post=5220&#038;subd=lauraabest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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