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		<title>First Semester Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I didn&#8217;t have a good excuse before for my sluggish posts, now I do: graduate school.  I just finished my first semester of my MFA program in poetry, and I am glad to say that &#8212; after several all-nighters, too many deadlines, and too many extensions of deadlines &#8212; I have most of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=482&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Writing Workshop with Carol Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose I can&#8217;t complain since I&#8217;m headed to graduate school this fall, but I do regret that I won&#8217;t be in town for my fiction teacher Carol Test&#8217;s novel-writing workshop.  She has this great syllabus structure in which students bring in the same section of their novels at the same time &#8212; the beginning, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=475&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testimony</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew, this blog has collected a lot of dust since I last checked in, and I might cheat by making a few predated posts. The start of 2010 has been a long haul. In early January, before the dust had even settled in my whirlwind of MFA applications, one of my aunts had a stroke. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=455&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portfolio Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s finally happened.  I’ve finally so involved in a project that I don’t have time to write witty things on my blog.  When I decided to apply for creative nonfiction MFA programs this fall, I thought I might as well take my first poetry class.  Why not?  I’d be studying creative nonfiction for three years. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=441&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life as Grocery List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently picked up an audio recording of Ann Patchett’s Run, curious as I was to read her fiction after reading her memoir Truth &#38; Beauty, about her friendship with Lucy Grealy, author of Autobiography of a Face. While Run was a decent novel, I was more stunned by what Patchett said in an interview [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=358&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Editor&#8217;s Desk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For almost half a year, I’ve served as a volunteer reader for a literary journal, which means I speed through dozens of submissions and decide which pieces are strong enough to pass on to the official prose editor. It can be a bit of a power trip, designating manuscripts for rejection, where my pieces have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=333&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling Madness</title>
		<link>http://sandrayee.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/journaling-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my earlier post about journaling, I want to say that quotas are a great way to get back into a writing commitment.  Goodness knows I too often abandon my pen and keyboard in favor of sloth, mindless reading, mindless eating, and Internet surfing, and I have to reacquaint myself with discipline [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=323&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Pursuits</title>
		<link>http://sandrayee.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/dangerous-pursuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month a friend of mine asked for tips on journaling, and I thought I’d share the tips here, many of them related to the timed writing exercises we do in the Fresh Start writing group. When we&#8217;re flirting with the idea of bringing more writing into our lives, I belong to the school of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=306&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer as Shaman</title>
		<link>http://sandrayee.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/writer-as-shaman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a great quote from an interview of Sandra Cisneros by Paul Mandelbaum, featured in 12 Short Stories and Their Making, edited by Mandelbaum (pg. 355).  Here Cisneros responds to Mandelbaum’s question of how rage is best used in art, in reference to her short story “Never Marry a Mexican.” I wonder about my siblings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=299&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Responsibly</title>
		<link>http://sandrayee.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/reading-responsibly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my nonfiction class last spring, the instructor suggested that we keep an ongoing log of inspirations and the different aspects of craft we’ve learned from different writers and pieces.  Agh, I wish I had started such a log years ago.  I usually read books so fast that I scarce remember, let alone identify, specific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandrayee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4694044&amp;post=297&amp;subd=sandrayee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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