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		<title>Trouble with the Divining Rod: Some Thoughts on Titling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traci Brimhall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to title poems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traci offers ideas for titling poems—a sometimes elusive and difficult task. "Even after a poem has been through a dozen drafts, and it’s starting to feel done, I still have to look at the blank top inch of the page and consider the title...It’s hard to decide when it’s ‘right’, but here are some strategies for titling."]]></description>
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		<title>Some Things I Know About Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jyl Lynn Felman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[finding the faith to write]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jyl talks about essentials for the writer: faith and patience. "I can’t tell you how to hold onto your faith, only that you have to have it, if you want to write. Keep writing even if you don’t know what’s coming next. The story will find you, it always does. The story you have to write eventually finds its way out of all the muck. But you have to have patience."]]></description>
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		<title>Going Indie: Publishing Your Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Giuliano Long</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to self-publish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Leah's Wake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us in welcoming indie writer Terri Giuliano Long as The Writer's Life's newest regular contributor. Terri will share her experience and expertise: "I’ll be writing about indie publishing, sharing stories, offering advice. If you have a question that I may be able to answer, let me know."]]></description>
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		<title>Young Jean Lee: Untitled Feminist Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Nicole Nixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminist performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Nicole Nixon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nudist performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nudity in performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nudity in the arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauren experiences nudist performance for the first time and discusses what emerges when the layers are removed: "...not once did this feel like a shock-value tactic. Rather, their nudity felt more like an invitation to explore a new way of thinking about bodies and the ways that we navigate the world and create space using our bodies. The ways that we create space for ourselves in a world that isn’t quite ready for how full and rich our identities truly are."]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Say That! You Are Not Alone!: Why I Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traci Brimhall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traci reveals the impetus to her life journey of writing: "I needed to love something badly enough to change my life, and that thing was poetry."]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Writing Prompt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shana Thornton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're looking at different types of abandonment for this week's writing prompt.]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Cordially Invited to My Desk: Courting Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traci Brimhall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frederico Garcia Lorca]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspiration for writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traci inspires you to invite the magic of the muse! "Magic we court, magic we covet, magic we desire to induce in ourselves. I think we write to produce inspiration, not because it seizes us. Or at least it most often seizes us when it’s invited."]]></description>
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		<title>The Loss of Words and Dead End Streets</title>
		<link>http://www.hercircleezine.com/2012/01/23/weekly-writing-prompt-84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jyl Lynn Felman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Writer's Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding metaphor in life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to use metaphor in writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Jyl thinks in metaphor and about emotional truth: "Emotional truth is hard to explain. Because it is not exactly the truth, it’s the memory of what happened and the feelings surrounding the memory. For a writer, emotional truth is more powerful than the reality... This is how to think as a writer. Tell your story and nobody else's."]]></description>
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		<title>Amber West: Puppets &amp; Poets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Nicole Nixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauren shares her experience of poetry and puppetry after speaking with Amber West of "Alphabet Arts": "More than anything, it's comforting to see generosity injected back into art-making. Although West really understands how to craft engaging poems and produce and perform a puppet poem, she truly understands the importance of a dialogue and exchange between artists and audiences."]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Delirium: My Dirty Little Writing Process Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traci Brimhall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tips for writing poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traci shares some of her writing practice and in the process reveals how the writer needs to find her own means into the work.]]></description>
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