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  <title>Reawakening Creativity with Lori Duff</title>
  <description>Lori Duff's journey began with strong academic success, which led her parents to steer her towards law school. Initially focused solely on her legal career, Lori truly discovered her love for creative writing after a challenging election loss in 2012. This moment of introspection prompted her to start blogging, humorously chronicling her husband's antics, which then evolved into a more public writing career. Lori is a lawyer, a judge, and an award winning writer.&amp;amp;nbsp; She's a past president of the Georgia Council for Municipal&amp;amp;nbsp; Court Judges, and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.&amp;amp;nbsp; A two time winner of the Georgia Bar Journal's Annual Fiction Competition, she also won the Forward Indies Gold Medal for Humor,&amp;amp;nbsp; and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Annual Column Contest, and many other awards for her work.&amp;amp;nbsp; Her new novel,&amp;amp;nbsp; Devil's Defense, is a finalist in the American Book Fest Best Book Awards in General Fiction and Thriller Adventure categories and her novella, Broken Things, won the Georgia Independent Author of the Year Award for Literary Fiction. &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp;What You Will Hear in This Episode:&amp;amp;nbsp; 01:46 Lori's Background 04:24 Journey to Writing 05:34 Balancing Law and Writing 15:20 Creative Inspirations 18:05 Character Development 30:46 Upcoming Projects &amp;amp;nbsp; Quotes “People are complicated. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy.” “Don't let anyone else tell you no. There's enough people telling you no.” &amp;amp;nbsp; Mentioned: loriduffwrites.com Substack @loriduffwrites Twitter: @loriduffwrites Facebook: Lori Duff Writes Instagram: @loriduffwrites LinkedIn: Lori Duff   eConnect with Bonnie Substack Newsletter: Own Your Ambition  Gendered Ageism Survey Results  Forbes article 5 Tips to own the superpower of your age IAMMusicGroup &amp;amp;nbsp; Purchase my book  Not Done Yet on Amazon:&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review &amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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