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		<title>Burn Them Down</title>
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Sam Clemens, John Gardner, Marshall Mathers, and the Artistic Impulse to Polemical Speech
When you’re hot enough to melt hell, and burn Satan, too, it’s tempting to play with fire all the time. Sometimes pyromaniacs set a brushfire that clears the artistic wilderness—and sometimes they get burned.
“It seems to me,” Mark Twain wrote, “that it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip #2: Writing for Its Own Sake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Eckerd College Writers Conference, Stewart O'Nan told us something interesting. It's much healthier, he said, to enjoy the private side of reading and writing. You do it because you love it. Not because you want to write something people want to read. You write something you want to read and then if other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2010/05/tip-2-writing-for-its-own-sake/</link>
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		<title>Tip #1: One Piece At a Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Ernest Hemingway on Writing, I read a small comment Hemingway once made, which I'll now paraphrase. Basically, Hemingway said, it takes me all morning to write a paragraph, 500 words. This made him doubt whether he'd ever be able to write something as long as a novel. In fact, Hemingway is remembered for his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2010/05/tip-1-one-piece-at-a-time/</link>
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		<title>The Hemingway Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago compiled a plan on how I would write and, because of a quote in a Stephen King book, I called it "The Other Hemingway Solution." This step-by-step process, which describes how I write, may be helpful to other writers. That's why I'm posting it again. I distilled these tips from Hemingway's letters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2010/05/the-hemingway-solution/</link>
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		<title>Big Tent at the Raven Bookstore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BIG TENT: Stories and Poems in Three Acts
Thursday, April 22
7PM @ The Raven
Grant Jenkins poetry
Cheryl Pallant poetry
Nate Barbarick fiction
...

Grant Matthew Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, teaches contemporary literature and creative writing at the University of Tulsa. He has published two books of poetry, Joy of God and Other Series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2010/04/big-tent-at-the-raven-bookstore/</link>
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		<title>Mile High City</title>
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Last week I attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) 2010 Conference in Denver, Colorado. Just under 10,000 writers descended on the Mile High City to talk, to meet each other, and to listen to discussions about all manner of things literary: Writing, editing, and publishing, to name a few. Everyone had a booth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2010/04/mile-high-city/</link>
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		<title>Sawtelle Dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last
night I drove into Kansas City to see David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, speak at
Unity Temple on the Plaza. First he read a chapter called "Almondine" from the
paperback edition of his book. 
Afterward, he took questions for the better
part of forty minutes.
Before
he opened up the floor, though, he detailed his theory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2009/11/sawtelle-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Anton Chekhov&#8217;s Rules for Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 10, 1889, Anton Chekhov (already an influential literary figure in Russia) wrote a letter to his older brother, Alexander. His brother had taken up writing years before, too, but only with inconsistent success. In the letter, quoted by the translators in Anton Chekhov: Stories, the famous author laid down six principles that "make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2009/10/anton-chekhovs-rules-for-writing/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Writer is Lost&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, the serious novelist can seldom punch straight through, write from beginning to end, knock off a quick revision, and sell his book. The idea he's developing is too large for that, contains too many unmanageable elements--too many characters... too many scenes... too many moments... He may work for weeks, even months, without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benpfeiffer.net/blog/2009/10/the-writer-is-lost/</link>
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		<title>Dueling Typewriters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence, KS - This November, in the midst of National Novel Writing Month, champions* of literacy in Kansas, the almost-but-not-quite-fabled Bathtub Writers' Collective, will stand up for their literacy initiatives... by sitting down
at an antique typewriter.
The Dueling Typewriters 2009 Charity Write-Off will benefit Bathtub's programs for Lawrence and Kansas communities, especially our version of Writers [...]]]></description>
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