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		<title>Oh the places you’ll go</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t imagined that I would ever write about Indonesian dragons. Yet here I was writing about Mochtar Lubis, a writer imprisoned several times for words that Indonesian dictators tried to suppress. My fifty words on this writer for the 26:50 project with International PEN went like this:
I imagine you
an Indonesian dragon:
your words the dragon’s
teeth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it’s started. The most remarkable writing project I’ve ever been involved in – 26:50 http://26-50.tumblr.com/ . To mark the fiftieth year of PEN’s Writers in Prison committee, fifty writers from 26 have been paired with a year and a writer PEN campaigned for during that year.
The freedom to write what we want, or to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Angels in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February brief for the Merton dark angels comes from Paul Redstone.
There&#8217;s been even more talk of weather than usual in recent months, what with  Europe&#8217;s unexpected snow and chill, speculation about the effects of global  warming in the wake of the Copenhagen fiasco, floods in Bolivia,  etc.
These days there&#8217;s much apportioning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A matter of identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several things happened this week to make me think about identity. It started out with me wondering about languages and nationalities on www.dark-angels.org.uk courses. I was totting up the numbers: 20 courses run now, over six years, which means hundreds of people have become dark angels.
But where are they from? The expectation might be that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only connect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Only connect” is my favourite quotation. It comes from EM Forster’s Howards End. It came to mind again when I was asked to sum up at the end of last week’s ‘narrative conference for the Welsh public service’ in Llandudno. It’s a powerful phrase and, for me, the best advice for living and writing well.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s certainly a myth that only ‘serious’ writing, using lots of abstract nouns and dry objectivity, gives you authority. In fact, the opposite is true because such writing leads to pomposity on your part and incomprehension on your reader’s part – and those effects undermine any authority you might have been striving for.
Perhaps the opposite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use your muscle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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Creativity is a muscle that needs to be exercised at work. Otherwise it withers away.
If a business doesn’t encourage its people to exercise this muscle, the business stops performing. Ideas dry up. And ideas don’t ever come from the ‘corporate body’, they come from the individuals who make up that body. So if you really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Angels in January</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The January brief was from Andy Milligan. Here it is.
Dearest Angels
My wife once wrote a poem called &#8216;Tolstoy&#8217;s Mobile Phone&#8217; in  which she imagined finding the great Russian author&#8217;s moby on the tube and  scrolling through his contact list and reading his recent messages. And that, my  angels, is the inspiration for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your mother should know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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Last week I was in Belfast, invited by the University of Ulster. I was asked to run a workshop for second year students of visual communication. But as I was over there, they’d arranged at the last minute for me to talk to an invited audience from the Northern   Ireland business community. Expecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What about the numbers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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If you’re a writer, there’s an assumption that you’re not interested in numbers. Even if you’re a business writer, people seek out specialists to write about finance. And that’s fair enough. I’m never going to claim to prefer reading a balance sheet to a novel.
But I do think there is a fascination with numbers deep [...]]]></description>
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