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		<title>Did My MFA Make Me a &#8220;Better&#8221; Writer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I a "better" writer having gone through an MFA program? Or merely a different writer? I guess it's not for me to answer that question, but for readers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otnipenop.com&amp;blog=2780733&amp;post=239&amp;subd=otnipenop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At Last They Can Rest in Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Pearcy, writing in the current Poets &#38; Writers magazine, mentioned that one of the ways he deals with revision is to file his excised characters and segments in a writing “cemetery.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otnipenop.com&amp;blog=2780733&amp;post=221&amp;subd=otnipenop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymously</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 12:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was researching web sites that raise funds for nonprofits, as part of a project at work. After a few, I began to notice many incorporated an approach that’s been in use by for-profit companies for years—inflating the importance of the consumer, or in this case, the donor. They emphasized that by making a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otnipenop.com&amp;blog=2780733&amp;post=210&amp;subd=otnipenop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fat Man is Singing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may not be every writer’s worst nightmare, but it has quickly become mine. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otnipenop.com&amp;blog=2780733&amp;post=181&amp;subd=otnipenop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Weird Titles Weren&#8217;t Weird Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been outdone. By a mile. A couple of posts ago I commented on some published books with odd titles and subjects. Today a friend posted a link to a story about a new book that features dozens of awkward and confusing titles. It&#8217;s called Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Implausibly Titled Books, and features [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otnipenop.com&amp;blog=2780733&amp;post=163&amp;subd=otnipenop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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