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		<title>The Art of Fiction</title>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Improving our Craft, one Book at a Time</itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Goodbye Gardner, Hello Bradbury</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Thinking of reading The Art of Fiction, "Young Writer?" Listen to this podcast first. Despite dying in a motorcycle crash in 1982, John Gardner achieved immortality (at least in the writing community) with the posthumous publication of the Art of Fiction]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Thinking of reading The Art of Fiction, Young Writer? Listen to this podcast first. Despite dying in a motorcycle crash in 1982, John Gardner achieved immortality (at least in the writing community) with the posthumous publication of the Art of Fiction]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thinking of reading The Art of Fiction, "Young Writer?" Listen to this podcast first. Despite dying in a motorcycle crash in 1982, John Gardner achieved immortality (at least in the writing community) with the posthumous publication of the Art of Fiction]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thinking of reading The Art of Fiction, "Young Writer?" Listen to this podcast first. Despite dying in a motorcycle crash in 1982, John Gardner achieved immortality (at least in the writing community) with the posthumous publication of the Art of Fiction]]></itunes:summary>
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<item>
	<title>Come for the Plot. Stay for the Stripper</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Wow! We've gotten to the final chapter of John Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction and it's all about plotting your short story, or novella, or novel (there are, apparently differences). We also learn some fancy plot vocabulary. Oh, and the stripper? Her name is Fanny, and her story is the example that Gardner uses to explain how to devise a plot. Our guess is that most readers don't make it to Fanny, but trust us, she's totally worth it.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Wow! Weve gotten to the final chapter of John Gardners book, The Art of Fiction and its all about plotting your short story, or novella, or novel (there are, apparently differences). We also learn some fancy plot vocabulary. Oh, and the stripper? Her nam]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Wow! We've gotten to the final chapter of John Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction and it's all about plotting your short story, or novella, or novel (there are, apparently differences). We also learn some fancy plot vocabulary. Oh, and the stripper? Her name is Fanny, and her story is the example that Gardner uses to explain how to devise a plot. Our guess is that most readers don't make it to Fanny, but trust us, she's totally worth it.]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wow! We've gotten to the final chapter of John Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction and it's all about plotting your short story, or novella, or novel (there are, apparently differences). We also learn some fancy plot vocabulary. Oh, and the stripper? Her name is Fanny, and her story is the example that Gardner uses to explain how to devise a plot. Our guess is that most readers don't make it to Fanny, but trust us, she's totally worth it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<title>Techniques</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Gardner promises to show us the proper way for the young writer to achieve artistic mastery. Doesn’t that sound marvelous? We take him to task on his analysis and advice on the techniques of Imitation, Vocabulary, The Sentence, Point of View, Delay and Style from chapter 6 of The Art of Fiction. ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Gardner promises to show us the proper way for the young writer to achieve artistic mastery. Doesn’t that sound marvelous? We take him to task on his analysis and advice on the techniques of Imitation, Vocabulary, The Sentence, Point of View, Delay and S]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Gardner promises to show us the proper way for the young writer to achieve artistic mastery. Doesn’t that sound marvelous? We take him to task on his analysis and advice on the techniques of Imitation, Vocabulary, The Sentence, Point of View, Delay and Style from chapter 6 of The Art of Fiction. ]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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<item>
	<title>Common Errors</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Enough with the theoretical, in this episode we get some practical advice out of Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction. Specifically, he tells us what we're doing wrong. We discuss a few of what Gardner call's clumsy errors before moving onto Faults of the Soul - Sentimentality, Frigidity, and Mannerisms.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Enough with the theoretical, in this episode we get some practical advice out of Gardners book, The Art of Fiction. Specifically, he tells us what were doing wrong. We discuss a few of what Gardner calls clumsy errors before moving onto Faults of the Sou]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Enough with the theoretical, in this episode we get some practical advice out of Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction. Specifically, he tells us what we're doing wrong. We discuss a few of what Gardner call's clumsy errors before moving onto Faults of the Soul - Sentimentality, Frigidity, and Mannerisms.]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Enough with the theoretical, in this episode we get some practical advice out of Gardner's book, The Art of Fiction. Specifically, he tells us what we're doing wrong. We discuss a few of what Gardner call's clumsy errors before moving onto Faults of the Soul - Sentimentality, Frigidity, and Mannerisms.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Metafiction, Deconstruction, and Jazzing Around</title>
	<link>https://wordstowritebypodcast.com/podcast/chapter-4-metafiction-deconstruction-and-jazzing-around/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chapter-4-metafiction-deconstruction-and-jazzing-around</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[After last episode’s mother of all chapters, we get a reprieve – a much shorter and  lighthearted chapter devoted to those weird genres of metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around (that last one we’re pretty sure Gardner made up.) While we do discuss Gardner’s take, we mostly just have fun geeking out over our favorite examples of the genres.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After last episode’s mother of all chapters, we get a reprieve – a much shorter and  lighthearted chapter devoted to those weird genres of metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around (that last one we’re pretty sure Gardner made up.) While we do disc]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[After last episode’s mother of all chapters, we get a reprieve – a much shorter and  lighthearted chapter devoted to those weird genres of metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around (that last one we’re pretty sure Gardner made up.) While we do discuss Gardner’s take, we mostly just have fun geeking out over our favorite examples of the genres.]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Interest and Truth</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Moving along to Chapter 3 in The Art of Fiction. We go to war over the various dichotomies that (what Gardner claims) make good fiction, his weird beef against experimental fiction–or what he calls “intellectual toys,” and why he chose a weird moment in Helen of Troy to serve as his example to illustrate the novel.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Moving along to Chapter 3 in The Art of Fiction. We go to war over the various dichotomies that (what Gardner claims) make good fiction, his weird beef against experimental fiction–or what he calls “intellectual toys,” and why he chose a weird moment in ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Moving along to Chapter 3 in The Art of Fiction. We go to war over the various dichotomies that (what Gardner claims) make good fiction, his weird beef against experimental fiction–or what he calls “intellectual toys,” and why he chose a weird moment in Helen of Troy to serve as his example to illustrate the novel.]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Moving along to Chapter 3 in The Art of Fiction. We go to war over the various dichotomies that (what Gardner claims) make good fiction, his weird beef against experimental fiction–or what he calls “intellectual toys,” and why he chose a weird moment in Helen of Troy to serve as his example to illustrate the novel.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Basic Skills, Genre, and Fiction as Dream</title>
	<link>https://wordstowritebypodcast.com/podcast/chapter-2-basic-skills-genre-and-fiction-as-dream/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chapter-2-basic-skills-genre-and-fiction-as-dream</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Onto Chapter 2 of John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction. We begin with Gardner’s opinions about grammar, and our opinions about those opinions. Then we move on to his definition of genres and the great importance of “verisimilitude.”]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Onto Chapter 2 of John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction. We begin with Gardner’s opinions about grammar, and our opinions about those opinions. Then we move on to his definition of genres and the great importance of “verisimilitude.”]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Onto Chapter 2 of John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction. We begin with Gardner’s opinions about grammar, and our opinions about those opinions. Then we move on to his definition of genres and the great importance of “verisimilitude.”]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Onto Chapter 2 of John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction. We begin with Gardner’s opinions about grammar, and our opinions about those opinions. Then we move on to his definition of genres and the great importance of “verisimilitude.”]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Aesthetic Law and Artistic Mastery</title>
	<link>https://wordstowritebypodcast.com/podcast/chapter-1-aesthetic-law-and-artistic-mystery/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chapter-1-aesthetic-law-and-artistic-mystery</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[We’re starting our first book – John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  Let’s find out why writing instructors and bloggers keep recommending it to aspiring writers. We’ll try to figure out what Gardner means by aesthetic law and if the literary cannon is worth a read, and we’ll address the (male) elephant in the room, er book. ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[We’re starting our first book – John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  Let’s find out why writing instructors and bloggers keep recommending it to aspiring writers. We’ll try to figure out what Gardner means by aesthetic law and if the literary cannon is wo]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[We’re starting our first book – John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  Let’s find out why writing instructors and bloggers keep recommending it to aspiring writers. We’ll try to figure out what Gardner means by aesthetic law and if the literary cannon is worth a read, and we’ll address the (male) elephant in the room, er book. ]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We’re starting our first book – John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  Let’s find out why writing instructors and bloggers keep recommending it to aspiring writers. We’ll try to figure out what Gardner means by aesthetic law and if the literary cannon is worth a read, and we’ll address the (male) elephant in the room, er book.]]></itunes:summary>
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