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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Paying Attention</title>
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		<title>Paying Attention to the Silence</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/paying-attention-to-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Paying Attention to&#8230; series on writing fiction concentrates, for the most part, on what to do when writing. More exactly, it covers things I need to remind myself to pay attention to &#8212; particularly as I&#8217;ve been working on Seems to Fit. In this post, I want to look at what to when not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention (or Not) to Word Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Write Your A** Off Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, bottom line: yes, at around 12:30 this afternoon I bounded across the 3,000-word mark in the 2010 Write Your A** Off Write-a-Thon. I&#8217;d gotten up around 6:30am, heated water in the teakettle, sat down at my desk and by 7:30 &#8212; after incidental stuff like selecting the day&#8217;s background music &#8212; begun to write. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Voice</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/paying-attention-to-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising/Packaging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may never have to master anything more difficult than thinking, and thinking convincingly, like multiple characters. It&#8217;s not just a matter of the word choices and rhythms of their dialogue (although it includes that). And it&#8217;s not just a matter of the outward manifestations of their natures &#8212; gender, style of dress, and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to the Magical</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/paying-attention-to-the-magical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[legends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolfram von Eschenbach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ambivalence&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even come close to capturing my schizoid views about magic (or magical) realism. The term has been around since the early part of the twentieth century, and for most of its life has been associated especially with the work of certain Latin American authors. Here&#8217;s part of the definition from A Glossary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Unpleasantness</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/10/paying-attention-to-unpleasantness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Marshmallow Gun" (excerpt) -- click for full original at xkcd.] I realized a couple days ago &#8212; during this criminally busy week &#8212; that I hadn&#8217;t posted any writing samples in a long time. Many of the (non-blogging) pieces I&#8217;ve posted on RAMH are grouped together under the category called &#8220;Paying Attention.&#8221; But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Your Sense of Play</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/05/paying-attention-to-your-sense-of-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 18:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d already written this post&#8217;s title. And I almost began the body of it with these words: &#8220;Sometimes, you just have to&#8221;&#8212; But, nah. I don&#8217;t think everyone, not even every writer, &#8220;just has to&#8221; do almost anything, much less experience the sort of off-the-wall moment I did one afternoon, years ago. And even less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to I-Don&#8217;t-Know-What</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/paying-attention-to-i-dont-know-what/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/paying-attention-to-i-dont-know-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[characters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Running Boy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=3503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When telling people about my flipping back and forth from technical writing to fiction, I usually say I went for five years without writing anything at all. That&#8217;s not exactly true. Truth is, after about four years I&#8217;d had enough. I couldn&#8217;t stand it anymore. I didn&#8217;t have anything specific I meant to write, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Bits of Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/paying-attention-to-bits-of-everyday-life/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/paying-attention-to-bits-of-everyday-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=3069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When writing-related blogs ask their writing audience when, exactly, they &#8220;knew&#8221; they were writers, the answer most commonly offered is: I&#8217;ve always wanted to write. Not so, in my case. Up until seventh grade, I had no such ambition, although teachers and family members had often complimented me on my writing. (I remember one grandmother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Meaning</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/paying-attention-to-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to try something&#8230; something different for our writing workshop back then. Not something funny (or was it?). Not something in the psychological horror line. Not a genre piece, not an obviously literary piece. For that matter, none of the things that would pop into workshoppers&#8217; heads when they sat down to read it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to Action &#8212; or Is It Character?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/paying-attention-to-action-or-is-it-character/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/paying-attention-to-action-or-is-it-character/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written here before (here and here) about the terrors of newly-published-authordom &#8212; particularly, when the bad reviews land in your mailbox. But sometimes, even a bad review contains a nugget you cling to when the whole damned thing threatens to come unraveled, when your spirit sags and you wonder why you&#8217;re even bothering to [...]]]></description>
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