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		<title>Contest over at OPWFT!  Read Writing Tips from Shiver Agent Laura Rennert, and Comment to Win!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>houndrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, um&#8211;I kinda think the title says it all. Crap. Now what do I do? Oh, yeah&#8211;I guess I could give you a linky: Old People Writing for Teens Oh, and come back soon&#8211;I&#8217;ve got more great writing tips to share from the Big Sur Children&#8217;s Writing Workshop. Sparkle Out. Share on Facebook]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, um&#8211;I kinda think the title says it all.  Crap.  Now what do I do?  </p>
<p>Oh, yeah&#8211;I guess I could give you a linky:</p>
<p><a href="http://oldpeoplewritingforteens.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/don%e2%80%99t-got-shiver-come-hither-shiver-agent-laura-rennert%e2%80%99s-five-writing-do%e2%80%99s-and-a-chance-to-win-books-and-more/">Old People Writing for Teens</a></p>
<p>Oh, and come back soon&#8211;I&#8217;ve got more great writing tips to share from the Big Sur Children&#8217;s Writing Workshop.</p>
<p>Sparkle Out.</p>
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		<title>Pay it Forward Contest&#8212;you, too, could win something totally random!</title>
		<link>http://www.houndrat.com/2008/07/01/pay-it-forward-contest-you-too-could-win-something-totally-random/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>houndrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was just surfing the blogosphere (okay, call it procrastinating, if you must), and came across Swistle&#8217;s site.? Apparently, she&#8217;s running a &#8220;Pay It Foward&#8221; contest.? No, you don&#8217;t have to run out and buy? anyone a? new Mercedes, and hopefully, no small children are going to die in our version.? Alas, there&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I was just surfing the blogosphere (okay, call it procrastinating, if you must), and came across <a title="Swistle's site" href="http://www.swistle.blogspot.com/">Swistle&#8217;s</a> site.?  Apparently, she&#8217;s running a &#8220;Pay It Foward&#8221; contest.?  No, you don&#8217;t have to run out and buy? anyone a? new Mercedes, and hopefully, no small children are going to die in our version.?  Alas, there&#8217;s no Kevin Spacey involvement, either.?  Although he should feel free to comment on my blog as well.? </p>
<p>Basically, what this contest entails is you commenting on a list of participating blog sites, including mine, found on the <a title="Swistle site two" href="http://www.swistle.blogspot.com/">Swistle site</a>.?  Comment as often as you like up through July 4th.?  At that time, a random winner will be picked from each site to win a PRIZE!? </p>
<p>And I&#8217;ll even do you one better&#8212;I promise, PROMISE, not to get your prize from the Target dollar bins.?  Or is that actually disappointing??  I cannot, however, promise that? the prize? will be something entirely un-bizarre, because you never know which neurons will be firing in my brain at any given moment.?  For some reason, though, I think the neurons associated with random, peculiar? behavior fire a lot more.?  At least in <em>my</em> head.</p>
<p>So, there you have it!?  Keep commenting, and maybe you, too,? can win something cool.?  Or something totally useless.?  Or disgusting.?  But, hey, ? you&#8217;ll never know, unless you comment!</p>
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