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		<title>consumption, the void, and palahniuk&#8217;s choke</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/07/29/consumption-the-void-and-palahniuks-choke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor is a sex addict. He attends 12-step meetings, not in the hope of recovery but to hook-up with other addicts on the bathroom floor of the community center while the meeting is going on in the room next door. Victor scrapes together a modest income by working at a colonial theme park with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on reading how we are hungry by dave eggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Dave Eggers&#8217; collection of short fiction entitled How We Are Hungry and found myself underlining passages throughout. They seem important, as if I will return to them again at some point. So, I thought I would jot them here, using this post as a kind of commonplace book. So much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>two good reads</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/04/04/two-good-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love books in our house and we tend to read a lot. That&#8217;s why I decided to share a bit about some of the books we&#8217;ve been reading. While I always seem to be in the middle of some book, my focus today is more on some of the great kids&#8217; books that Aidan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading elizabeth strout&#8217;s olive kitteridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my fiction writing class this semester, I selected the 2009 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I hadn&#8217;t read it prior to the class (as I sometimes like to read a book for the first time along with my students), but I quickly found myself immersed in the lives of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading the road by cormac mccarthy</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/07/01/reading-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading McCarthy&#8217;s novel The Road for the past few days while on vacation. I&#8217;m about halfway through at this point and am not quite sure yet what I think. A friend of mine recommended it. I&#8217;ve never read any of McCarthy&#8217;s work before, but after getting the recommendation from my friend and really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>personal belief about fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 06:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fiction writing students just recorded personal essays ( &#8220;This I Believe&#8221;-style) regarding what they believe to be true about their craft as storytellers. This is part of a project I&#8217;ve been running for the past couple years called &#8220;This I Know&#8221; (I know a shameless rip-off of the better known NPR series.) Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;picture this,&#8221; a great success</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/04/25/picture-this-a-great-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday we had our &#8220;PictureThis&#8221; event where creative writing students from both poetry and fiction classes &#160;Program Covercame together to read their work for an audience of about eighty people&#8211;fellow students, family members, teachers, and friends. They read in response to photographs (most taken by the students themselves) and in response to &#8220;obstructions&#8221; given them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the perfect human irks students</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/03/25/the-perfect-human-irks-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We kicked off a unit on microfiction in my creative writing class the other day. This segment of the course will be focused heavily on the idea of revision&#8211;sometimes arbitrary, always gut-wrenching. The process we&#8217;re following is one I&#8217;ve been developing with a colleague of mine based on the film The Five Obstructions. The very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>conflict: the stuff of life, the stuff of storytelling</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/03/22/conflict-the-stuff-of-life-the-stuff-of-storytelling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fiction writing students and I often argue around the matter of what makes for a story. The debate usually begins when I encounter either one of two stances on the issue: 1) sometimes nothing happens in a story, there is no particular conflict, and the characters never change, or 2) everyday life is boring, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;picture this&#8221; photographs</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/03/17/picture-this-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Picture This&#8221; is a student literary event where MVCC creative writers of fiction and poetry get together to read work original works they have composed in response to photographs they have created. Below is the gallery of images mostly submitted by the students for this project. (There are a few other images mixed in.) Students, [...]]]></description>
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