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	<description>&#34;Writing is a tough racket.&#34;—Ernest Hemingway</description>
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		<title>Good Enough Isn&#8217;t Good Enough</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/05/05/good-enough-isnt-good-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 22:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[A Real Piece of Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were merely interested in selling copies of the second Dakota &#38; Svetlana adventure, The Rich Are Different, I would probably release the novel now. According to reviews of the first book, there is certainly a demand for the second. And by the standards of most readers, not to mention many other writers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Bear With Me During Remodeling</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/03/29/please-bear-with-me-during-remodeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of a recent pharmaceutical spam attack on some of my websites, I am in the midst of moving this blog and DakotaStevens.com to another hosting provider. These sites will look bad for some time. I ask for your patience. It will take me a month or more to rebuild both DakotaStevens.com and Chris Orcutt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemingway Had the Pilar, I Have Golf</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/03/22/hemingway-had-the-pilar-i-have-golf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every morning while living in Key West and Cuba, Ernest Hemingway rose early to write, and every afternoon he went out cruising and fishing on his yacht, Pilar. There are many articles out there, including this one and this one, that detail what Hemingway did during his afternoons on the Pilar, as well as how much the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewriting The Rich Are Different</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/03/02/rewriting-the-rich-are-different/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/03/02/rewriting-the-rich-are-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Craft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in the post office the other day, a couple of postal workers who bought A Real Piece of Work complimented me on the writing. &#8220;It reads so smoothly,&#8221; one of them said. &#8220;It seems like it&#8217;s effortless for you,&#8221; said another. Then they asked what I was up to now. I told them, &#8220;Reworking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indie Author&#039;s Guide to the Universe: An Interview with Jeff Bennington</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/25/the-indie-authors-guide-to-the-universe-an-interview-with-jeff-bennington/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/25/the-indie-authors-guide-to-the-universe-an-interview-with-jeff-bennington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, readers. Today, for the first time in the history of my blog, I&#8217;m making somebody else the focus. Today I&#8217;m going back to my roots as a newspaper reporter and interviewing Jeff Bennington, creator of The Kindle Book Review and author of a new book about the indie publishing phenomenon, The Indie Author&#8217;s Guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next in the Dakota Stevens Mystery Series&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/13/next-in-the-dakota-stevens-mystery-series/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/13/next-in-the-dakota-stevens-mystery-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in late November 2011 when I released A Real Piece of Work, I promised to release book #2 in the series, The Rich Are Different, once book #1 sold 1,000 copies. When I wrote that, I was convinced it would take me at least 10 months to sell that many copies (an average of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Ebook Experiment — Part 2 —Conclusion</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/13/the-free-ebook-experiment-part-2-conclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/13/the-free-ebook-experiment-part-2-conclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I said I would report on the results of my 2 &#8220;free days&#8221; on Amazon&#8217;s KDP Select: the total number of free downloads, as well as the number of sales of A Real Piece of Work in the days afterwards. So, without further ado, here are the numbers: Free Downloads (approx.): Day 1 = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing vs. Self-Promotion</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/09/writing-vs-self-promotion/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/09/writing-vs-self-promotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orcutt.net/weblog/?p=2058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big problem facing writers today is finding a balance between writing and self-promotion. I’m currently doing a free promotion of my Kindle mystery novel, A Real Piece of Work, and I’ve discovered that it’s easy for tweeting, posting to Facebook, and blogging and the like to take over your life. Meanwhile, in my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Ebook Experiment — Part 1</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/08/the-free-ebook-experiment-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/02/08/the-free-ebook-experiment-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the new, social-networking philosophy of book promotion, one of the most effective ways of building your audience is to give away copies of your book. Of course the old-school part of me—the part of me that has been paid for my writing ever since I was a cub reporter—bristles at this. I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s All About the Reader</title>
		<link>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/01/06/its-all-about-the-readers/</link>
		<comments>http://orcutt.net/weblog/2012/01/06/its-all-about-the-readers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONCE UPON A TIME there was a mystery novel, a mystery novel that only one agent and zero editors believed in. This mystery novel was read by editors at top publishing houses including Dutton, Harper, St. Martin&#8217;s Press, Harcourt, Tor and Poisoned Pen. It was even read by a major movie studio. Yet none of [...]]]></description>
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