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	<title>Christina Baker Kline: Writing/Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now have a new home for my blog, next door to my website:  www.christinabakerkline.com/blog &#8212; and after today, I won&#8217;t post to my old &#8216;wordpress.com&#8217; site anymore.  It looks a little different.  Let me know what you think! I have an exciting line-up of guest writers in the next month, including literary agent Molly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1922&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Adams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justin Kramon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing a novel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Kramon didn’t think he was qualified to call himself a writer.  And then he thought about his favorite books, and had a change of heart: For some reason, I used to have the perception that writers should be interesting, well-rounded, generally knowledgeable people.  I got this idea before I’d met any writers, and certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1912&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Become Someone Else?</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/how-do-you-become-someone-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[character]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Strout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olive Kitteridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The writer Elizabeth Strout, explaining what it&#8217;s like to write from the point of view of an irascible retired schoolteacher in her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olive Kitteridge: &#8220;I actually see myself in all my characters.  In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1900&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop!  Before You Try to Get an Agent …</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/stop-before-you-try-to-get-an-agent-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joelle Delbourgo Literary Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary agent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Molly Lyons of the Joelle Delbourgo Literary Agency on the questions agents wish you’d ask yourself before you send a query or a manuscript: As an agent, I see proposals and manuscripts at all stages.  Some of them are just a glimmer of an idea hidden inside a lot of text; some are polished to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1887&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Happy Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird in Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gretchen Rubin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the official release date for the paperback of my new novel, Bird in Hand. To celebrate, I wrote about writing, life, and the pursuit of happiness for Gretchen Rubin&#8217;s wonderful blog, The Happiness Project.  One of my favorite questions she asked was, &#8220;What&#8217;s a simple activity that consistently makes you happier?&#8221;  (Long-time readers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1875&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What We Don&#8217;t Know We Know</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/what-we-dont-know-we-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The novelist Gayle Brandeis wrote about a traumatic and terrible event.  And then it happened to her in real life. Several months ago, as I was proofreading my new novel, Delta Girls, a sentence I wrote last year kicked me in the gut: “My mother killed herself, you know.” It took me a moment to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1862&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of the Best Advice</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-best-of-the-best-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of advice for writers out there, and though most of it boils down to write – revise – revise again, somehow this instruction never gets old.  Most writers I know own at least a half dozen books on writing, and I think it’s because we all wish there were rules we could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1855&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inventing Characters from History</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/inventing-characters-from-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When novelist Laurie Albanese and art historian Laura Morowitz began collaborating on a novel about the 15th-century painter Fra Filippo Lippi, they discovered that their biggest challenge was to make the truth seem believable.  Laurie Albanese explains: When my good friend Laura first handed me a book of Fra Filippo Lippi’s 15th-century paintings three years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1850&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write Drunk, Edit Sober</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/write-drunk-edit-sober/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of the paperback release of my latest novel, Bird in Hand, my friend Gretchen Rubin invited me to answer some questions about happiness for her wonderful blog, The Happiness Project.  One of her questions is, &#8220;Is there a happiness mantra or motto you&#8217;ve found very helpful?&#8221; I do have one &#8212; which I&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1827&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Beckett on the Obligation to Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative expression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Someone once said, &#8216;If you go for the universal, you get nothing; if you go for the specific, you get the universal.&#8217; &#8220;There is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1819&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Portuguese writer Clara Paulino thought she&#8217;d never find another language that could express the depth and nuance of her experience.  And then she did: A few months ago I made the momentous discovery that I can write in English. Strange discovery, one might say, given that I have lived “in English” for the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1811&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to Write</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/permission-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Mahler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiction writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small, bare room.  An old lamp, an upholstered chair, a wooden desk by the window.  Cows and trees beyond.  No papers to grade, no phone calls to return.  All the things that distract me, keep me from writing fiction &#8212; the to-do lists, children&#8217;s schedules, work-for-hire, committee meetings &#8212; are gone, gone, gone. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1803&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Write About Our Kids?  Further Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writer Lisa Gornick revisits this vexing question &#8211; and digs a little deeper: A few weeks ago I posted on this site an account of writing &#8212; and ultimately deciding not to publish &#8212; an essay about my teenaged son. Most of the responses were questions about whether the caution I took with my son [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Inspired!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative nonfiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I shared some exercises I use with my students at Fordham for revising fiction and narrative nonfiction.  But a lot of us need inspiration at the other end of the process, too &#8212; right at the beginning.  So below are some of the best writing prompts I&#8217;ve used over the years.  Some I made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Guest Blog (Is This Postmodern, or What?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 01:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which the intrepid C. M. Mayo (whose recent novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, is not-so-coincidentally out in paperback) explains why guest blogging is a flourishing new literary genre and a powerful tool for promotion, and provides 10 hot tips for coming up with your own guest blog posts. And does it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1762&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revising Nonfiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 03:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you&#8217;re revising it helps to have a specific assignment.   Last week in this space I listed some exercises that my fiction-writing students find useful.  Here are some revision ideas that my memoir and journalism students particularly like: 1) Write down three adjectives (beautiful, aggressive, haughty) that describe a character in your narrative/memoir. (Be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1755&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Write about Our Kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist and clinical psychologist Lisa Gornick explores this question &#8212; and finds an answer she can live with: Last year, I wrote an essay about a dark patch in the otherwise largely luminous life of my sixteen-year-old son. When the essay was finished, I showed it to him. It was Sunday morning. My son put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1746&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Jumpstart a Revision</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/five-ways-to-jumpstart-a-revision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 23:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I’m working on revising fiction with my undergraduate and grad students at Fordham. Below are some of the tips and ideas I’ve collected over the years that my students find most useful. (Next week I’ll talk in this space about the best exercises I’ve found for revising nonfiction.) 1) First, answer these questions: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1737&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tap Dancing on the Beach</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/tap-dancing-on-the-beach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray and congratulations!  It&#8217;s pub day for Debra Galant, whose new novel, Cars from a Marriage, &#8220;delivers wit, charm and characters who feel like next-door neighbors,&#8221; according to Booklist. So why does Debra feel like she&#8217;s tap dancing on the beach? Politicians kiss babies. I take pictures of them chewing on postcards advertising my new novel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1728&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The older we get, the more &#8230; you realize there&#8217;s a whole range of things you will never do, of things and people you will never be.  As life becomes more and more limiting, there is something wonderful about being able to get inside the skin of people unlike yourself.&#8221; &#8211; Lee Smith Lee Smith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1715&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Department of Having to Take Your Own Advice</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/from-the-department-of-having-to-take-your-own-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, when I went to London for a month to teach creative writing, I brought only a few books with me. One of them was The Pocket Muse: Ideas &#38; Inspiration for Writing, by Monica Wood, a slim volume filled with exercises and advice that I thought my students would like.  And indeed, that little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1696&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write a Screenplay in 10 Days</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/how-to-write-a-screenplay-in-10-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A-list Hollywood screenwriter Kristen Buckley (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 102 Dalmations) tells you all you need to know about writing a successful screenplay: When people talk about fiction they usually mean novels and short stories, but a screenplay is also fiction.  It’s fiction with labyrinth-like structural constraints. Within these parameters, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1690&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before You Write Today</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/before-you-write-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Read, read, read.  Read everything &#8212; trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.  Read!  You&#8217;ll absorb it.  Then write. If it is good, you&#8217;ll find out.  If it&#8217;s not, throw it out the window.&#8221; &#8211; William Faulkner<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1683&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bi-Curious about Writing Fiction</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/bi-curious-about-writing-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was never the way she planned &#8212; not her intention.  But journalist Cindy Schweich Handler wrote some fiction.  And she liked it. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a writer. And since I was an avid reader of fiction as a kid, that meant being a novelist. I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1588&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back &#8212; and Stepping Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began this blog, ten months ago, I had recently finished a novel that was several months from publication, Bird in Hand, and was beginning a new one (working title Orphan Train).  I envisioned this site as a place to talk about the writing life and the process of writing my new novel-in-progress.  I thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1615&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing the Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Pamela Redmond Satran is a novelist, New York Times bestselling author, ninja web developer, and one-time magazine editor. Now she&#8217;s embarking on something entirely new: Two things inspired me to write my new novel, Ho Springs, online, day by day, instead of writing it for a conventional publisher the way I did my first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Tip #11: Don&#8217;t Listen to Hackneyed Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write what you know?  On second thought &#8230; “Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words ‘Write what you know’ is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don’t. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Two Books Don&#8217;t Sell, Write a Third</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The novelist and creative-writing teacher Susan Breen offers consolation, hope, and advice for anyone trying to get published: I’ve come to think that publishing stories are like birth stories. There’s usually a lot of pain, but once you hold that bundle in your hands you forget all about it. Then you say, Let’s do it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1471&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“You Have to Make It Excruciating Somehow”:  More on James Cameron</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted James Cameron’s answer to the question “What’s the most important thing you know about storytelling?” Discussing Cameron’s ideas with the writer Bonnie Friedman – with whom I have an ongoing, percolating conversation about craft and creativity (as regular readers of this blog well know) –, I mentioned that I particularly liked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1540&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer, Interrupted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jill Smolowe hasn&#8217;t been writing much lately. She has a pretty good excuse: Lately I’ve been thinking about writing. And therein lies the problem. Thinking about writing is one thing; writing is another matter entirely. Though my professional writing life continues to produce a steady stream of words (and a steady paycheck), my personal writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Talk About Dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I received an early copy of Dawn Raffel&#8217;s new story collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, which officially debuts this week.  Reading it &#8212; a slim, spare set of 21 stories in just over 100 pages that Publishers Weekly calls &#8220;a model of economy and grace&#8221; &#8212; I was struck by how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1516&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Essential Elements of Storytelling &#8230; according to James Cameron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night, flipping through channels, I came across a Charlie Rose interview with James Cameron.  Say what you will about the director of Avatar and Titanic (and Aliens) &#8212; he knows how to tell a story.  I was so intrigued by his answer to the question &#8220;What&#8217;s the most important thing you know about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katharine Davis just finished writing a novel.  Now comes the hard part: Writing a novel is a long journey.  From the simple physical endurance of turning out all those pages to the emotional ups and downs of the creative act—it’s an enormous endeavor, consuming one’s life for years at a time. Writers often talk about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1501&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of Multitasking</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/the-curse-of-multitasking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting to pick up my son after his play rehearsal, I sit in the car and grade student essays. I listen to podcasts as I drive over the George Washington Bridge to work. When the phone rings at home and it&#8217;s my sister, I get up from my desk to make beds, put in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1489&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do I Even Want to Write a Novel?</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/why-do-i-even-want-to-write-a-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a challenging, fulfilling job and a satisfying personal life, Anne Burt questions her desire to write a novel – and finds the answer in an unexpected place: Motivation has always been as cruel to me as it has been – well – motivating. I’ve been motivated to write because: I imagine glory when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Gossip?</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/why-gossip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is the responsibility of writers to listen to gossip and pass it on.  It is the way all storytellers learn about life.&#8221; &#8211; Grace Paley<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1479&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roxana Robinson on Writing About Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Roxana Robinson’s latest novel, Cost, I was struck by how beautifully and naturally she writes about place, from the coast of Maine to the streets of New York.  Consider this, for example – a coastal view from the perspective of a painter: “Julia’s studio was in the barn overlooking the meadow. Through the big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1459&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Egg in My Pocket</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a project for school, my 13-year-old son, Will, spent several days carrying an egg around. His task was simple: all he had to do was keep the egg from breaking. The experiment was intended to show what it’s like to have a baby, to approximate the feeling of constant vigilance that never leaves you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1448&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Past the Blind Spot</title>
		<link>http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/why-do-we-write-to-find-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Bonnie Friedman found out something big … As soon as I finished writing my guest post for this blog last week about how “people don’t do such things,” I put the computer in &#8220;sleep&#8221; mode, stood up, and the answer to the question I was secretly asking washed through me. Why couldn&#8217;t I really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1420&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being Smart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dani Shapiro explains why fiction writers shouldn&#8217;t think too much: Over the weekend, I was talking with a friend about a particular writer who shall remain unnamed here for reasons which will soon become clear. She&#8217;s published quite a lot of books&#8211;fiction, essays, polemics&#8211;and in this case, we were discussing her fiction, which isn&#8217;t, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1417&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of the Unsympathetic Character</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several days ago I received an email from a woman who’d recently read my latest novel, Bird in Hand.  She mentioned that she appreciated my “honesty” – she liked that my characters had “definite real quirks instead of being perfectly lovable all the time,” and discussed her own novel manuscript, currently facing rejection from publishers on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1413&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much of the Book is True?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheila Kohler, author of the new novel Becoming Jane Eyre, offers a nuanced answer to this perennial question: Shortly after the publication of my first novel, The Perfect Place, my husband and I were invited to dinner by friends. I can still see us sitting somewhat awkwardly side by side while our hostess, a book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1398&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways to Push Through When You&#8217;re Stuck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer Julie Metz offers some hard-won advice: Like many of you, I am working on a new writing project, a novel. What made me think I could do this, anyway? But here I am, too far in to let go, committed to my characters. Some days are thrilling, but lately I often find myself stuck, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1344&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;People Don&#8217;t Do Such Things!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writer Bonnie Friedman considers what it means to create &#8216;realistic&#8217; fictional characters: &#8220;People don&#8217;t do such things!&#8221; is the last line of Ibsen&#8217;s Hedda Gabler &#8212; words cried out by the scandalized judge after Hedda has shot herself off-stage.  His words echo in our ears as the curtain rings down and as the actors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1377&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Tell the Truth &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three great writers consider the concept of &#8220;truth&#8221; as it relates to the creative process: &#8220;The hero of my tale &#8211; whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful &#8211; is Truth.&#8221; &#8211; Tolstoy,&#8221;Sevastopol in May [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1367&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Big Idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you come up with an idea that&#8217;s big enough to sustain a novel or memoir?  And how do you know when you&#8217;ve got it? As a teacher of creative writing, I get asked this question a lot &#8211; and as a novelist, I can tell you that it torments every one of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1359&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Novel Terminable and Interminable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Friedman writes about the lure of (and cure for) the endless novel: I just finished my first novel.  This isn&#8217;t the first novel I tried to write.  Before publishing a book of essays and then a memoir, I&#8217;d been a devoted fiction writer.  I&#8217;d written hundreds of pages of two vast novels, one when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1339&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a Story Intends for Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lorrie Moore is one of my favorite authors (Like Life and Birds of America, her story collections, are on my shelf of prized books), but I did not love her new novel, The Gate at the Stairs.  I found it emotionally arid, the dialogue too clever by half, the twists, when they come, both unsurprising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little-Known Occupational Hazard Affecting Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, talks about the thrill and the perils of trying something new: There’s a common occupational hazard that affects writers, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it: the desire to write outside your main field. I know a journalist who took a sabbatical to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=1332&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pushing Through to Greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bakerkline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning a story or a novel, Alice Munro says, is the easy part &#8230; &#8220;Endings are another matter.  When I&#8217;ve shaped the story in my head, before starting to put it on paper, it has, of course, an ending.  Often this ending will stay in place right through the first draft.  Sometimes it stays in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christinabakerkline.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8268745&amp;post=960&amp;subd=christinabakerkline&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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