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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>
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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.
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			<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>
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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 Kevin Spacey [...]]]></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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