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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Not Comfortable Using the Word Motherf*^#er (but please feel free, unless you&#8217;re my kid)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Short answer: I have teenagers. &#8220;Like they don&#8217;t hear it at school,&#8221; you say. &#8220;Or say it themselves.&#8221; Yeah, I realize teenagers are fluent in profanity—I was in junior high and high school once. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m off the hook from preserving for my daughter, 13, and son, 16, one pocket in their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1899&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AWP 2013 RECAP: WRITE LIKE A MOFO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Butler University MFA program, Booth, Hilene Flanzbaum, Rob Stapleton, and Andy Levy, Thank you. Thank you for sending me to AWP 2013. As an expression of my deep gratitude, I offer this wee token of my affection and appreciation for you and your commitment to your staff and students. So. Let’s recap. AWP is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1827&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Words Fail, Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psalm 147:3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tragedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama quoted Scripture. Addressing the nation about the massacre of babies in an elementary school in a picturesque Connecticut town yesterday afternoon, he wiped a tear and invoked the Psalms. In a torrent of Where was God? Why did God allow this to happen? How can a loving God  . . . ? ? ?, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1662&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Writing MFA Primer (Epistolary)</title>
		<link>http://bethbates.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/creative-writing-mfa-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert McKee "Story"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Prof. Kind and Brilliant, the Golden Rule rules, and the results are magical. So listen: be as patient, gentle, and honest with the other workshopees and their work as you expect them to be with you and your work.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1632&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Next Right Thing This Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Lamott]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a writing professor who recommended copying, literally, tangibly, work by authors whose style most lights your writing fuse. Pick an author, prop open a book, lay it next to the laptop, and type the words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters until, I suppose, some sort of osmosis (and muscle memory?) occurs. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1601&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Books You Should Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Treehouse: from Ana Cristina Alvarez, author of Support: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman This concise, traumatic (and unfinished) story follows Ivan, a man who has spent the greater part of his life in the Soviet gulags, as he returns home upon the death of Stalin. The reader follows Ivan’s slow steps back into [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1600&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation Highlight: St. Regis Princeville Ginger Margarita</title>
		<link>http://bethbates.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/vacation-highlight-st-regis-princeville-ginger-margarita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lodging at the St. Regis Princeville is rich for our wallet, but sunset at the Living Room is within our budget (barely). The Ginger Margarita I sipped over sunset was a vacation highlight this summer. No prose will be as snappy as this party-in-a-glass, so let&#8217;s cut straight to the recipe. Ginger Margarita: St. Regis [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1579&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maud Newton Is a Nice, Selfish Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I drove to hear her address the MFA students in the Butler University Efroymson Center for Creative Writing the other evening, I formed a question to ask during Q&#38;A. I can never think of an original question at these things or have burning curiosity about anything I haven’t already read about an author in an interview, but there was one thing I really wanted to know from this Rebecca "Maud" Newton, who has been a champion literary blogger since before blogging was even a word. What I wanted to ask her was,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1542&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writerly Gems Public Schools Can Produce</title>
		<link>http://bethbates.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/writerly-gems-public-schools-can-produce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, we French are the direct descendants of those glorious Franks who conquered the Goths and Vandals after they sacked the Roman Empire, so the voracity with which my people fought should come as no shock to anyone. Second, let it be known that our attack was by no definition unprovoked. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1517&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Princes of Serendip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list was deeply personal to me, so I didn't jet it out to every journal. I carefully selected two or three journals I trust to handle it with care. Two months later, I heard from the editor of Emprise Review. Two weeks later, it was published here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethbates.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2519592&#038;post=1327&#038;subd=bethbates&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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