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		<title>Moving On</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a girl just needs a little balance.  And I&#8217;m not talking about tree pose. What&#8217;s most important to me?  Managing two blogs badly or sending my work out into the word with polish and panache?  I&#8217;ll take the polish and panache, thank you very much. I kept two blogs because I wanted to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=701&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Gardner]]></category>
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		<title>Resolutions and The Best Intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Year Resolutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 2007: Maybe this happens with age.  A compulsive list maker from the age of six, for the first time EVER in the entire History of the Universe I’ve not written the list of resolutions that will change the course of my life forever. While I may be exaggerating somewhat, this is still completely out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=680&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truth, Chutzpah and Joseph Campbell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when The Power of Myth, Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell were water cooler conversation?  It was 1988 and we all wanted to ‘follow our bliss’.  We wanted to ‘make our heart sing’.  And it sounded easy enough to do. So…how’d that work out for you? Trying to follow our bliss is a little bit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=673&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Writer's Conference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that my writer’s block doesn’t actually exist?  After all, at this very moment am I not sitting at this desk, listening to the rain, engaged in the very task of putting words in order?  Am I not writing?  Maybe what I want to call ‘writer’s block’ is simply generic malaise.  An unease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=663&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s No Sacrifice</title>
		<link>http://mimmp.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/its-no-sacrifice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most folks who talk about wanting to write never do.  They just keep talking about it.  So I would imagine there’s a ton of good writing that never gets written. Then there are the folks who stop talking about writing.  They sit their asses down in front of their computer every day and hit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=651&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today was sorta interesting. This morning, in an act of desperation – apparently I am so desperate to call myself published that I will do anything – I applied for a freelance job with one of those websites that pay pennies for your paragraphs.  Seriously.  On top of that, they keep the rights and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=647&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abandonment Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[completing a manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long does a first manuscript have to  “cook” in a drawer before we admit defeat?  And, of course, by “cook” I mean, “gather dust”.  Is there a limit to how long we can wait before we rewrite the first chapter?  How do we revive personal passion for the story and the characters we’ve created [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=643&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Brilliant Philip Roth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t even know if this is legal.  But here I go anyway.  I’m reading Philip Roth’s new book Nemesis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010), about a polio epidemic in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940’s.  And I’m learning to write.  Specifically, in my new work The Growing Season, I am trying to describe my characters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=628&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cafeteria Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eleventh grade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Hickenlooper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was surfing the morning news with a bowl of steaming steel-cut oats and fresh brewed Just Java coffee (direct from Palm Desert) when I scrolled through an obituary for forty-seven-year-old filmmaker George Hickenlooper.  Four years younger than me, he died of a heart attack in his sleep. I didn’t know his name, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mimmp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10109540&amp;post=619&amp;subd=mimmp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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