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		<title>Is the Mobile App the New Writer&#8217;s Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 03:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WordPress to Tumblr, Blogger to Squarespace, writers are using blogs to engage their readers. Aryn Kyle shares anecdotes from her recent West Coast book tour at www.arynkyle.tumblr.com, while on Blogspot, Dedra Johnson meditates about the challenge of immersing herself in a character while dealing with life&#8217;s day-to-day details. If part of the literary project is to build connections and invite people in, the willing writer might want to experiment with an emerging form of digital storytelling &#8212; the cross-platform mobile app. &#160; Browser bookmarking site Read it Later examined its users&#8217; screen-based reading habits and found that &#160; &#8230;of ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Writerly Kind of Social Media: Michael Siedlecki on Neovella</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blank page is the great adversary of many working writers. Turn on your computer, open a Word document, begin. With what? What are you supposed to write? Michael Siedlecki&#8217;s collaborative writing tool, Neovella, offers an answer. This online application lets you work with friends to collaboratively compose a novella. One writer begins the story, one adds a plot twist, one turns that plot upside down; gradually the paragraphs accumulate, building toward a full-length piece. &#160; In the tradition of James Joyce&#8217;s The Dead and Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s The Man Who Would Be King, the novella is part short story, part ...]]></description>
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		<title>Code Meets Storytelling in iPhone App Machine #69</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do if you can&#8217;t finish your novel? &#160; Make an iPhone app. &#160; Writer Mark Wernham, author of the mystery novel-in-progress, Jefferson Greenspan Saves the World? partnered with chip tune musician Matthew C. Applegate (Pixelh8) to develop Machine #69, a collaborative story app that features photos by the author, narration by voiceover artist Dan Russell, and music by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto and Devo&#8217;s Mark Mothersbaugh. There&#8217;s even an &#8220;old&#8221; radio interview with the author. &#160; Mark Wernham plunges you into the middle of the action, introducing a time-traveling salesman, Jefferson Greenspan &#8211; who&#8217;s on ...]]></description>
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		<title>First, Do No Harm: John Pipkin Re-visions History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Evangelicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I often tell my creative writing students that the biggest challenge in writing is that we really haven't created any new emotions in the last 2000 years, that the same things that people are experiencing now are the same set of emotions that human beings have always experienced, we just talk about them in a different way and we experience them in a different context […] so the challenge in writing historical fiction is then to figure out what the contexts were in which these experiences were encountered."]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Write Books? Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have lived so long with the book that it&#8217;s easy to forget that it, like the iPad, was once a cutting-edge technology. From Johannes Gutenberg&#8217;s Bible to William Blake&#8217;s The Book of Thel, many of literature&#8217;s most sublime texts were offered as elegantly bound volumes, crisply printed, their pages illuminated by intricate illustrations. In this way the container for an author&#8217;s writing became an extension of his words, quietly enhancing the meaning of the text. &#160; Over centuries, publishers refined the format into a near-perfect content delivery system, a pinnacle of achievement in information technology, and in arts and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Exercise: Research Your Story With Foursquare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I heard Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley talk about the evolution of an idea. From question to concept, prototype to vocation, Crowley explained that Foursquare came about not because he had a striking business plan and market-tested concept, but because he decided to make something he wanted to see in the world. This advice is as true for writers as it is for startup CEOs. Passion is the first ingredient. But what comes next? &#160; While tools on their own don&#8217;t make the writer&#8217;s story great, they do make his job easier. Which brings me back to Foursquare. Foursquare ...]]></description>
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		<title>From Fragments to Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[influence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magician-like, the poet tunes language fragments from an out-of-print book to the pitch of a piece of political rhetoric, ordering the words to soothe, evoking rain. &#8220;What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and that he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.&#8221; So Wallace Stevens reminds us it is the poet’s responsibility to interpret the world. But what happens when the physical, emotional, and historical extend through ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Visualization Narrative?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the question, &#8220;Why does a man need to tell stories to others and himself?&#8221; Mario Vargas Llosa writes, &#8220;It is a way by which the mind uses fantasy to structure the chaos of the original experience. &#8221; Life, as we know it, is not naturally narrative. People have for millennia crafted stories from Vargas Llosa&#8217;s &#8220;chaos&#8221; in an effort to understand its rhythms. From pictures of animals in Spain&#8217;s Altamira caves to the creation myths of the Tlingit people in the Pacific Northwest, from Homeric epics passed from bard to bard, to Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Slaughterhouse Five, storytellers ...]]></description>
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		<title>Listen Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Contributor: Dena Ratner Plugged into Clinic, your thirty-minute journey to work is colored by the band&#8217;s coke-induced fast tracks. What started out as a bleary-eyed trudge is transformed into matutinal elation as you&#8217;re gliding down the street past person after person, cars cars cars and building after building, everything is rocking with your aural jubilation As you climb up the stairs and come back forever / Summer&#8217;s in the house, untamed it was / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee until you arrive at work and barely remember how you ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Writer Who Will Help You Finish Your Novel is on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Orlean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of writers keep up with their readers on Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s social networking site; Paul Harding is on Facebook, Susan Orlean is on Facebook, Jericho Brown is on Facebook. We writers have been told that having a presence on Facebook will help increase our readership, but will it help us hone our craft? &#160; When a reader imagines a writer at work he may call up the image of a gentle genius alone in a rickety garret, candle flickering against the damp. But the writer&#8217;s vocation requires less of a sudden stroke of solitary insight than it does perseverance, collaboration ...]]></description>
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