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		<title>Following some feedback…</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/bloggers-desk/following-some-feedback%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cards on the table]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[five months]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey there Wordsmith Laners, When I started this blog in July 2009, I was pretty down in the dumps. At the time, I&#8217;d been suffering from situational depression for a few months, which made it hard to write (let alone do other things, like be my normal self). I had also been made redundant from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithlane.wordpress.com&#38;blog=8132281&#38;post=1875&#38;subd=wordsmithlane&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Nicole Haddow, Freelance Journalist</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/interviews-with-writers/interview-nicole-haddow-freelance-journalist</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews with Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acp magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boutique publisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[girl crush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niche media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You asked for her, and now you get her! It seems quite a few wordsmiths can&#8217;t get enough of freelance journalist Nicole Haddow, who, at 27, has done quite well for herself where women&#8217;s magazine features are concerned. She&#8217;s been published in RUSSH, Cleo and Madison, among others, and is the type of person who seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithlane.wordpress.com&#38;blog=8132281&#38;post=1866&#38;subd=wordsmithlane&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog: The 10 Commandments (of Magazine Work Experience)</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/guest-bloggers/guest-blog-the-10-commandments-of-magazine-work-experience</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/guest-bloggers/guest-blog-the-10-commandments-of-magazine-work-experience#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmith Textbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amp shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glossy mag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONYA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[own worst enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[placement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work experience placements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Blog by Magazine Work Experience Chick Bethilee Keamy Girls who want to work in magazines take note: Bethilee Keamy has done work experience at a few ACP glossies (like Cosmo &#38; Shop), interned at CoverGirl Australia and is one of two current beauty interns at ONYA. And she knows what she&#8217;s on about (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithlane.wordpress.com&#38;blog=8132281&#38;post=1862&#38;subd=wordsmithlane&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog: Why experience at community newspapers can often prove a little more valuable than more glamorous pursuits</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/guest-bloggers/guest-blog-why-experience-at-community-newspapers-can-often-prove-a-little-more-valuable-than-more-glamorous-pursuits</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aspiring journalists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fashion magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic designers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Blog by an Anonymous Wordsmith Lane Reader. This account of work experience was originally published anonymously for Upstart, and recently submitted for publication on Wordsmith Lane. For the sake of my own mind (I get confused far too easily) I&#8217;m going to call her Lauren, and I&#8217;m thankful to her for sharing her experiences with you. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithlane.wordpress.com&#38;blog=8132281&#38;post=1856&#38;subd=wordsmithlane&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Kennedy Estephan, Author of &#039;The Day it Rained&#039;</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/interviews-with-writers/interview-kennedy-estephan-author-of-the-day-it-rained</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kennedy Estephan, author of &#8216;The Day it Rained&#8217; Tell us (in a nutshell) about your wordsmith career path so far: It all started in a rather unexpected way. Initially I was planning to join a local acting group. When told there was no room left, I started looking into other options. A writers&#8217; group was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books, Bags &amp; In Betweens: High Fashion, Lowly fakes, and Harold Carlton&#039;s Heaven, Hell &amp; Mademoiselle</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/bookshelf/books-bags-in-betweens-high-fashion-lowly-fakes-and-harold-carltons-heaven-hell-mademoiselle</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/bookshelf/books-bags-in-betweens-high-fashion-lowly-fakes-and-harold-carltons-heaven-hell-mademoiselle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookshelf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Snapshots: Shopping Bags+ Food+ Adventures+ Style+ Inspirations+ Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chanel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chanel bags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Carlton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Please don&#8217;t cry, Monique, they say &#8220;identical models&#8221; but I doubt they will be,&#8217; Chanel explained. &#8216;The workmanship will be shoddy, the fabrics poor quality. No one can copy the essential qualities of a Chanel.&#8217; And this was the sentence that cemented my decision to love Harold Carlton&#8217;s latest book, Heaven, Hell &#38; Mademoiselle (Orion, $32.99). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (An Eclipse Novella)</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/bookshelf/bookshelf-the-short-second-life-of-bree-tanner-an-eclipse-novella</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/bookshelf/bookshelf-the-short-second-life-of-bree-tanner-an-eclipse-novella#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookshelf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse Novella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephenie Meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twilight reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twilight series]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A guest blogger post by Josephine Ayoub* *My 15 year old sister (and an amazing creative writer with a flair for drama the likes of which I have never seen. And this is not my nepotism talking. Anyway, she didn&#8217;t want to do this review, because she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;do&#8221; reviews. But I thought I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot off the Press: The Porefessional by Benefit</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/mascara-memos/hot-off-the-press-the-porefessional-by-benefit</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/mascara-memos/hot-off-the-press-the-porefessional-by-benefit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mascara Memos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porefessional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Extra, Extra! Read all about it: Pores can disappear now and there&#8217;s no doubt about it! If this is headline news you thought you&#8217;d never hear, think again. This week, the Benefit pink and pretty press pack has me really excited, and that&#8217;s because I finally have the chance to rid myself of unattractive pores without plastering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Snapshots: Reasons why my weekend rocked</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/life-snapshots-shopping-bags-food-adventures-style-inspirations-home/life-snapshots-reasons-why-my-weekend-rocked</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/life-snapshots-shopping-bags-food-adventures-style-inspirations-home/life-snapshots-reasons-why-my-weekend-rocked#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Snapshots: Shopping Bags+ Food+ Adventures+ Style+ Inspirations+ Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mascara Memos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger Event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candy Corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jojo Moyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mad Hatter's Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxted Thomas PR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Letter from your Lover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentines Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[High from a dinner out at Toko Surry Hills on Thursday night, I started it off by turning off my computer early on Friday night, and deciding that I was NOT going to fuss around about all the work I had to do. Instead, I took my kid sister Josie to Civic Video and she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Gemma Crisp, Editor of CLEO &amp; Blogger at The Show Pony</title>
		<link>http://sarahayoub.com/interviews-with-writers/interview-gemma-crisp-editor-of-cleo-blogger-at-the-show-pony</link>
		<comments>http://sarahayoub.com/interviews-with-writers/interview-gemma-crisp-editor-of-cleo-blogger-at-the-show-pony#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ayoub</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews with Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gemma Crisp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's magazine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Going freelance can be a pretty tough thing if not done right. I mean, I tried it, and within three months I was unbelievably bored and uninspired. Staying in my PJs all day was not good for my mind or my motivation levels, but I could have learned a thing or two from former Dolly Editor turned [...]]]></description>
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