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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Short Fiction</title>
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		<title>From the Dark Side: 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted an excerpt from an unpublished horror story of mine, &#8220;In the Ruins on Borphyr Road.&#8221; If you read and liked that excerpt, I&#8217;ve just posted a second part here. Don&#8217;t try to read this second excerpt, though, if you haven&#8217;t read the first: I haven&#8217;t provided any sort of &#8220;as you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Dark Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before (here and elsewhere) about the writing workshop I participated in, fifteen-some years ago. An odd cast of characters, maybe: three writers of poetry and literary fiction then seeking their graduate degrees in English, with an emphasis on creative writing; one writer of comic action stories (think Carl Hiaasen, maybe with a touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fundamental Things Apply</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/03/the-fundamental-things-apply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[E.E. Cummings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erroll Garner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Gershwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ira Gershwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love Walked In]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Supper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Below, click Play button to begin well, playing. During this time, volume control will appear at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 4:22 long.] On March 1, 1991 &#8212; twenty years ago yesterday &#8212; I got an email from a stranger who&#8217;d downloaded and read an unpublished story of mine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to the &#8220;Take Her Hand!&#8221; Moments</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/11/paying-attention-to-the-take-her-hand-moments/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/11/paying-attention-to-the-take-her-hand-moments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seems to Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style and Craft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carnegie Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lynch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gawaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Highway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sing Sing Sing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: scene from David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. Soundtrack: Lou Reed's interpretation of "This Magic Moment"] Almost every writer of stories, I bet, has had at least one &#8220;Take her hand!&#8221; moment. Here&#8217;s why I call them that: Over twenty years ago, I was working on a longish short story called &#8220;Sing, Sing, Sing.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even I Didn&#8217;t Miss the Closed Captions</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/10/even-i-didnt-miss-the-closed-captions/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/10/even-i-didnt-miss-the-closed-captions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons & Animation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[["Bottle," by Kirsten Lepore] It&#8217;s hard enough to tell a complete story with words&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Breathing of Summer Mountains, the Hissing of Summer Lawns</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/the-breathing-of-summer-mountains-the-hissing-of-summer-lawns/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/the-breathing-of-summer-mountains-the-hissing-of-summer-lawns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G. Bluestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Niven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Glück]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: It was almost dark on an early summer eve, and the forest was never more enchanting than now, at dusk. At dusk the mountain begins to withdraw its force back into itself and become quiescent. If you too can become quiescent, so still that you can&#8217;t think of your name, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention (or Not) to Word Count</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/paying-attention-or-not-to-word-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paying Attention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[word counts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Write Your A** Off Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's block]]></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>Pushing Your Writing, Pushing Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/pushing-your-writing-pushing-your-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/pushing-your-writing-pushing-your-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marta Pelrine-Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Song Dong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fairy Tale Asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing challenges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember The Querulous Squirrel&#8217;s 100-stories-in-100-days challenge? Ambitious, wot? Supremely well executed, eh? Okay, now start with a similar premise: Write a story a day for an entire month. Saturdays and Sundays included. Holidays, too. No limit on word count. Just write a complete story each day. Simple to say, hard to execute, right? Just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LitFic: Online Resources</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/litfic-online-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Editorial Ass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speak Coffee to Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Third Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, Moonrat replied to a question about the acceptability of collections of &#8220;linked&#8221; short stories: stories united by a common theme, cast of characters, whatever. Along the way, she wondered what the state of short fiction in general might be, in these days when writers seem so focused on books.* (The comments surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Got to Be a Morning After</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/theres-got-to-be-a-morning-after/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/theres-got-to-be-a-morning-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[epiphany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wise Men]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Centuries after the Eastern Orthodox Church began celebrating the Epiphany, the Roman Catholic Church decided to start doing so too. But for some reason, the Western Church really latched on to this image of the Persian priests bringing gifts of frankincense, myrrh, and gold to the infant Jesus, guided from their homeland of Iran by [...]]]></description>
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