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		<title>&#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Forget the Words, Did You?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/you-didnt-forget-the-words-did-you/</link>
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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>Writerly Distractions and Neuroses: Fiction and Word Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Doodle with Measuring Tape," by Bryan Reyna] I came across an interesting site this morning, called Renaissance Learning (subtitle: &#8220;Advanced Technology for Data-Driven Schools.&#8221; In general, Renaissance Learning is a resource for (as you might guess) teachers and other educators. One area of the site, the Quiz Store, peddles quizzes about specific books. What interests me today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Old Is New Again</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/everything-old-is-new-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[All That Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Fosse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Stafford]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=9240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Extrange shoes," by user pepel at stock.xchng] From whiskey river: They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, &#8220;Who are you really, wanderer?&#8221; and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;m a king.&#8221; (William Stafford) &#8230;and: The people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Split and Crazy</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/split-and-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Online World]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Billy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilbert Sorrentino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Ronstadt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry McMillan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the mind(s) of a writer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this image ("Mirror Mask"), see the artist's statement at the foot of this page. Clicking on the image above will enlarge it, if you want to experiment.] From whiskey river: This writing stuff saved me. It has become my way of responding to and dealing with things I find too disturbing or distressing [...]]]></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>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>Death Scenes</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/death-scenes/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/death-scenes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Death in the Sickroom, by Edvard Munch] Well, now. Could that title be any starker? Maybe it should be all caps? (Aside to Jules, if you&#8217;re reading this: I actually put that header in a marquee tag for a moment. It was just too, too weird.) Some of the most interesting online content for writers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a Writing Prompt?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/looking-for-a-writing-prompt/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/looking-for-a-writing-prompt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Famous in a Parallel Universe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-time RAMH friend Marta has started a new blog. It&#8217;s based on something other writers may have thought, from time to time: I bet in another world I&#8217;d be appreciated more than I am in this one&#8230;! Marta&#8217;s taken it a step further: writing the blog as if her famous-mirror-counterpart &#8212; called simply &#8220;M.&#8221; &#8212; were writing [...]]]></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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		<title>A Conspiracy of Pages</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/a-conspiracy-of-pages/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/a-conspiracy-of-pages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Edgar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Etching: "The Hall of Planets," by Erik Desmazières, #5 in a series of eleven illustrating  an edition of "The Library of Babel," by Jorges Luis Borges; click to enlarge] From whiskey river: The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was [...]]]></description>
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