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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help Find Nichole Cable GLENBURN, Maine — Police are investigating the reported disappearance of a 15-year-old girl from Glenburn. Nichole Cable was last seen on Route 221 in her hometown on Sunday, according to Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross. Ross &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/05/19/help-find-missing-teen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1478&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Lesson to a Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son’s tonsillectomy didn’t go exactly as planned. I was told it was an in and out procedure, we’d be home in a matter of hours, then a week of recovery. Bing. Bang. Boom. Not quite. Riley started vomiting once &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/05/13/a-mothers-lesson-to-a-writer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1470&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, my 8-year-old son is having his tonsils and adenoids removed. Surgery these days is a bit different from when my mother had her tonsils removed. She was 2 years old, and the doctor came to her house and did the &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/04/22/ice-cream-anyone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1461&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8230;Uninterrupted, Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I won NaNoWriMo this past November, I was excited to continue working on my new story. I worked on research and scenes for over a month when suddenly, I lost inspiration. One afternoon as I was playing with my &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/04/15/writer-uninterrupted-part-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1457&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, I am way behind on my award acceptance speeches. While I have a handful of awards waiting, I thought I would post only one today. I don&#8217;t want to infect anyone with Blogus Awarditis, a vicious ailment that inflicts bloggers by the dozens &#8211; difficulty handling &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/04/08/a-lovely-award/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1446&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8230;Uninterrupted, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://4amwriter.com/2013/04/01/writer-uninterrupted-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us writers have inner critics. That little voice inside you that tells you that you’re a terrible writer. That you have no business crafting a story. My inner critic first visited me when I was in junior high &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/04/01/writer-uninterrupted-part-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1435&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitney Denison can’t wait to start over. She thought she had everything under control, that her future would always include her best friend Katie… Until everything changed. Now her life in Bloom is one big morning after hangover, filled with &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/03/25/interview-with-coleen-patrick-author/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1390&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish that I could read all the books that my fellow bloggers have published, whether traditionally or self-published. However, I gave up my Zip-Through-Books Superpower when I had kids. Nowadays, I’m lucky if I can read one book a &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/03/18/bloggers-between-the-covers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1371&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8230;Uninterrupted, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of months I have gone through a change. No. Not that change, thank you very much. I introduced my writer self to my human self, and they made friends. That kind of change. For too long &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/03/11/writer-uninterrupted-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1357&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it’s been a few weeks since I last posted an update on my mother’s health situation. I wish I could say that’s because all has been running smoothly. Rather, I have been absorbing what it must be like to &#8230; <a href="http://4amwriter.com/2013/03/04/my-mom-the-patient/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4amwriter.com&#038;blog=23254225&#038;post=1331&#038;subd=4amwriter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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