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  Give That to Me Again?

  1665 readers"...sometimes people are listening to what you say, even when they don't seem to be. This is true particularly when the person on the receiving end listening side of the conversation is both defensive and vulnerable at the same time."AU: OK? It's somewhat awkward and perhaps damaging to your argument to suggest that conversation is

• Everyone’s Marketing Fingerprint is Different

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  Godin on the Humility of Blogging

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  What Makes Your Writing Fly?

  1948 readersBy words the mind is winged ~ Aristophanes What gets you flying when you feel you want to write? That’s the question Ken Allan, the blogger in middle-earth is asking on behalf of the Green Pen Society*. Here’s what he says: Some write to pass on their thoughts to their descendants; some writers record their

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  The Story Behind ‘Montana Morning’ by Jill Limber

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  10 Things to To Do When You Lose Your Blogging Voice

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  Are you a Writer or A Person Who Writes?

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  Swamp Thing & Animal Man Return to DC Comics

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  If I Lay Here… – Using Lie and Lay Correctly

  2311 readersThere is a plethora of confusing word pairs in English, and even native English speakers confuse their usage in everyday conversation.  Earlier today, for some reason, I kept hearing Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars in my head.1  I used to listen to this song a lot, so I guess the fact that I felt like lying