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		<title>what i&#8217;m writing.  southern goth.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/28/what-im-writing-southern-goth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archie Bishop weren&#8217;t worth half a man. Not even on a good day. On a bad day there weren&#8217;t no point to him at all. He&#8217;d sit on that stump &#8211; out by the railroad where the boys from the mountain wore the path through the woods &#8211; and just stare at you like you [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/28/what-im-writing-southern-goth/' addthis:title='what i&#8217;m writing.  southern goth.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>an unexpected gesture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often ask myself what makes a story work, and what makes it hold up as a story, and I have decided that it is probably some action, some gesture of a character that is unlike any other in the story, one which indicates where the real heart of the story lies. This would have [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/10/an-unexpected-gesture/' addthis:title='an unexpected gesture' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>disparate images. didion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother on the Moors Sandburg&#8217;s Sink Brethren Baby We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy; will lead the children into the sea. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/03/16/disparate-images-didion/' addthis:title='disparate images. didion.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>got my feet, got my toes, got my liver&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flynn, I&#8217;ve always loved Nina. Even when I was nine years old and had never heard her name or saw her face and thought she was a man. So, it was always gonna be awesome, because it&#8217;s Nina. About halfway through I started thinking, because that&#8217;s what I do, &#8220;So, what does it say about [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/03/08/got-my-feet-got-my-toes-got-my-liver/' addthis:title='got my feet, got my toes, got my liver&#8230;' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes a great notion</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/02/sometimes-a-great-notion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today someone reminded me life is beautiful. Like Paul Newman, beautiful. For most people it can be difficult not to get caught up in their own personal stories. I think this goes doubly true for writers. Those of us who write fiction spend our lives willfully creating drama and conflict, driving people to the edge [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/02/sometimes-a-great-notion/' addthis:title='sometimes a great notion' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>malcolm gladwell. advice to writers.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/13/malcolm-gladwell-advice-to-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell on The Big Think: This I think is true, not just of writers, but of anyone who is in a creative space, that you have to reverse the normal human tendency, which is to edit. So a lot of&#8230; and occasionally this is, I think, a source of a great deal of frustration [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/13/malcolm-gladwell-advice-to-writers/' addthis:title='malcolm gladwell. advice to writers.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>saroyanesque</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/05/saroyanesque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to learn to breathe deeply; really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. - William Saroyan, Advice to a Young Writer On Christmas Eve I received a parcel [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/05/saroyanesque/' addthis:title='saroyanesque' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>only after a writer is dead: the recorded voice of virginia woolf</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/12/08/only-after-a-writer-is-dead-the-recorded-voice-of-virginia-woolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The recorded voice of Virginia Woolf) &#8220;Only after a writer is dead&#8230;&#8221; If you enter the John Ritblat Gallery in the British Library from the upper level and turn left to the first list of recordings, you can listen on headphones to a short extract from Virginia Woolf&#8217;s only recording. Part of a BBC radio [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/12/08/only-after-a-writer-is-dead-the-recorded-voice-of-virginia-woolf/' addthis:title='only after a writer is dead: the recorded voice of virginia woolf' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes a hat is just a hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’ After, I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of them, an earnest type, started asking the questions. ‘Miss O’Connor,” he said, ‘why was the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/09/19/sometimes-a-hat-is-just-a-hat/' addthis:title='sometimes a hat is just a hat' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>didion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forgot who we were. —Joan Didion<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/09/04/didion/' addthis:title='didion' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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