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	<title>The Official Heather Quarnstrom Blog &#187; Writing</title>
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		<title>Blank Page, Oh How I HATE You!</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2010/03/12/blank-page-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been having some serious issues with writer&#8217;s block. It seems like all the time I have so many ideas just floating around my brain until I sit down to actually write. The second I pick up a pen/pencil, or sit down at the computer my brain just empties. It&#8217;s beginning to make me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up&#8230; Or &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m still alive and kicking.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2010/02/05/catching-alive-kicking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone!
I&#8217;d like to apologize for the long hiatus. Many things have been going on in my personal life. I won&#8217;t go in to too much detail, but I&#8217;ve had a lot of health issues and a couple of surgeries in the interim time. I&#8217;ve also lost three close family members in the space of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this blog about, anyway?</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/07/30/blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just recently I began submitting my blog to various blog related listing sites, and found I had a small problem. All of them ask me to classify what this blog is about. Uh-oh. For some reason they all seemed to lack the proper category. The neglected to add the &#8220;whatever strikes my fancy&#8221; category. 
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned since becoming a Mom</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/05/12/learned-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the top ten that I have found most attitude altering (in no particular order):
1. No matter the love you have felt before, your love for your child will eclipse it.
2. If you&#8217;ve just put on clean clothes something will make it necessary to change. (Baby spit up, food, mud, some unnamed substance you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am officially PUBLISHED!</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/05/05/officially-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 02:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the last week or so has been fantastic! I&#8217;ve been officially published twice now on Associated Content. They published the article that is posted on this site as well as the poem. This is the first time that anything that I have written has been published by someone other than me. It&#8217;s a heady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/30/fear-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whirling in the void of today
Blanketed by the comfort of yesterday
I hide in fear of tomorrow.
The uncertainty rings through
My soul is filled with quiet terror
And I huddle against the chill of my future.
I peek, just a peek
At what might be and startle.
It&#8217;s warm, so very warm,
To thaw me to the core of my insecurity.
The love, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty (and Terror) of the Written Word</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/03/beauty-terror-written-word/</link>
		<comments>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/03/beauty-terror-written-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Heather Quarnstrom
Have you ever seen a sentence that was just so well put together that it&#8217;s the equivalent of a beautiful painting? The sentence just flows and hits something deep within you. It&#8217;s such an amazing construct that while it is something that inspires you as a writer, it also terrifies you. You feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the blogging world, again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/03/joining-the-blogging-world-again/</link>
		<comments>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2008/04/03/joining-the-blogging-world-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have once again made a vow to being writing. What does this mean for the handful of people that read this? I will be blogging again. Yes, that&#8217;s right. I&#8217;m gonna do it again. (I can almost see the sarcastic comments rolling in as I type this.)
That being said, I have posted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Progress Update</title>
		<link>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2006/06/13/writing-progress-update/</link>
		<comments>http://weblog.heatherquarnstrom.com/2006/06/13/writing-progress-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it seems that for every step forward I have to take two big leaps back. I ahve been trying to write my first spec fiction novel and have hit a wall. I have the world, the story line, the main character, the plot, and only two pages. I&#8217;m not sure if I have just [...]]]></description>
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