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	<title>The Writer&#039;s [Inner] Journey &#187; writing truth</title>
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		<title>What we talk about [to ourselves] when we talk about writing*</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever said any of these things to yourself? &#8220;I did the revision which improved the tightness but muddled the arc.&#8221; &#8220;I loved the first draft but must say that even though this is painful, the soon-to-be finished product in the form of [fill in the blank: essay, article, story, poem, book, etc] will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Saunders on Acceptance and &#8220;Thanklessly Toiling&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A time ago, Lisa Alvarez, over at [the thoughtful] The Mark on the Wall featured a link to a short essay: George Saunders recounts the day ten plus years ago when Quarterly West accepted a story. It&#8217;s worth a re-look for me right now, someone who is the midst of a project andseeing my way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: DANCING AT THE SHAME PROM contributors talk shame and writing: Amy Friedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a nonfiction writer, particularly one who writes memoir, shame can be a blessing and a curse. Amy Friedman knows. Her most recent book Desperado&#8217;s Wife, is the story of her marriage to a prisoner sentenced to life for the murder of another drug dealer. Her essay &#8220;Kept Together By The Bars Between Us&#8221; appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Almond differentiates between memoirism and narcissism, between portraying a topic and transcribing it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narcissism is a topic that is both seductive and perplexing &#8211; and has everything and nothing do with writing. I’ve written about the topic of narcissism, I’ve experienced the topic, I’ve known people who are the topic. Now, author Steve Almond writes on Cognoscenti about the topic in regards to writing, and it’s instructive and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: DANCING AT THE SHAME PROM contributors talk shame of self and writing: Victoria Zackheim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this series of stuck/unstuck, contributors from Dancing at the Shame Prom on being ashamed, and how it connects to writing. Victoria Zackheim is a creative across many genres: fiction, nonfiction, plays, television. She is a writer, teacher, editor and a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate. Her book &#8211; as author or editor &#8211; include: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take comfort: In order to really write, it&#8217;s futile to try to avoid the mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;[it] always feels better than coloring between the lines.&#8220; —Polly Campbell By Polly Campbell I’ve spent most of the morning trying not to write an essay about a family tradition. It’s first on my To Do List. The deadline is a week away, which, for someone who over-ponders just about everything, is not long. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: DANCING AT THE SHAME PROM contributors talk shame of self and writing: Samantha Dunn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this series of stuck/unstuck, contributors from Dancing at the Shame Prom on being ashamed, and how it connects to writing. First, I asked Samantha Dunn, author of Failing Paris, and the memoirs, Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life, and Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex and Salvation. She&#8217;s written for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polarities of the writing life and of being a writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Wallen Some days I despise writing. On those days I’m usually at home writing. On the days I claim I would have to die before I could ever give up writing are the days that I can’t seem to get to my writing desk. I can’t stand it when people greet me with, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Gina Frangello</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you’ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Surrendered Writer vs The Controlling One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Recovering Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like I can’t control what other people do, sometimes I can’t control which direction my writing is headed. I feel so powerless, no—impotent. Though I shouldn&#8217;t. Because I have no business trying to control. Just like living beings, my words have their own footprints and fingerprints, and I want to remember to respect that. [...]]]></description>
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