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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Seems to Fit</title>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Pendyrus Male Choir, &#8220;Cwm Rhonnda&#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: the valley of the Rhondda] I&#8217;ve mentioned before that while writing Seems to Fit, I used a variety of musical playlists to put me in the proper frame of mind for a given chapter. The selections on the day&#8217;s playlist were among those which (so I imagined) would be favorites of the character most heavily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Forget the Words, Did You?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: a zebra teaches a little girl to scat-sing. Found it at Zooglobble, home of "kids' music worth sharing." Warning: do not visit that site if you are even mildly distractable.] My Dad taught me many things about music, especially jazz, even (I&#8217;m certain) in ways which I have yet to understand or even recognize. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Author&#8217;s Book, to Its Author</title>
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		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/perfect-moments-the-authors-book-to-its-author/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[and now: to read it for pleasure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. Note: minor identifying details of this recently discovered letter have been obscured, to preserve the anonymity of the parties involved.] Dear J_____, So, you have finally finished me. I suppose I should offer not only thanks but congratulations to you &#8212; if so, then, sure: Congratulations! But I also can&#8217;t help thinking that maybe we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Worlds Out from Within</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/bringing-worlds-out-from-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Fantasticks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when 'imagined' isn't good enough]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: Lista (The List), a short film by Pawe&#322; &#321;yczkowski. It won the 2010 "Best Film" Suzanne Award, for users of the Blender open-source animation and visual-effects software.] From whiskey river: Lao Tzu exhorts us to listen to the world &#8220;not with ears but with mind, not with mind but with spirit.&#8221; Some days I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Two Beautiful Women, a Certain Amount of Booze, and Maybe I&#8217;ve Got a Story&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1990s, boy, was I ever confused, perplexed, and probably (by many measures) in need of adjustment. Especially about my writing. Here&#8217;s what my quote-unquote oeuvre consisted of then: A non-fiction Op Ed memoir(ish) piece in a regional edition of the New York Times. A published mystery. (Depending on who I was talking to at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something in the Air</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/something-in-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/something-in-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: at left, all the Earth's water collected into a single ball, about 865 miles in diameter; at right, all the Earth's atmosphere in a single ball, about 1240 miles in diameter, assuming sea-level pressure. (source)] From whiskey river: One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the &#8220;A&#8221; Word</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Left-Hand Rule." For an explanation about something other than the subject of this post, see this page at the University of Maryland's Department of Physics site.] &#8230;or: what It&#8217;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has to do with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Well, no, not really. The post started out to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging, Blinking, into the Sunlight</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/emerging-blinking-into-the-sunlight/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/emerging-blinking-into-the-sunlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been visiting RAMH for more than a few months, you probably know I&#8217;ve been a bit&#8230; distracted recently. And it&#8217;s probably going to happen again in a few weeks, when I again take up my rock hammer, rope, and lanterned helmet, wandering back into Seems to Fit for the Nth and final time.* In the meantime, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not &#8220;The End,&#8221; But Maybe The End</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/not-the-end-but-maybe-the-end/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/not-the-end-but-maybe-the-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing definite yet, of course. (It won&#8217;t be definite until I wash my hands of the last galley edit, ha.) But I think Seems to Fit ends as follows: Woot.]]></description>
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		<title>What We Owe Our Characters</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/what-we-owe-our-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/what-we-owe-our-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In about four hours&#8217; work today on Seems to Fit, I wrote just about two thousand words. Which was neither bad nor exceptional, and just fine &#8212; not least, because it brings me within perhaps a thousand words (but probably less) of The End. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the structure of this last [...]]]></description>
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