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		<title>Weekly Writing Assignment #7: Random Words, Urban Dictionary Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Urban Dictionary is one of the most fun websites I have ever visited. This week, we're doing another random word challenge, but this time using words strictly taken from the Urban Dictionary. ]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Writing Assignment #5: Decisions, Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, dear writers, your assignment is to write the thoughts of a character who is on the cusp of making a very difficult decision. What led up to this moment in time? What are the choices this person faces? Why is this decision so particularly difficult?]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Winner #3: Untitled by Andrew Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week's winner demonstrated a keen sense of sentence structure that lent not only form to the "character," but also depth. The entry clearly captures the thought process of a hawk searching for food, but adds an interesting existential twist.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Writing Assignment #4: Mad Men Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, your assignment is to write a character sketch. But not just any character sketch--write one about a character in the show Mad Men. It can be for a character who is currently in the show, or you can make up a character whom you think might fit in.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Writing Assignment #3: Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans have a unique relationship with the animal kingdom. We keep pets, we take our kids to the zoo, we seek them out sometimes in their own natural habitat.
Although the fable is essentially a dead literary genre (when was the last time a book of fables graced the NY Times Best Sellers list?), humans have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Writing Assignment #1: Honorable Mentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned earlier this week, the first Weekly Writing Assignment inspired some amazing short stories. So amazing that a few deserve honorable mentions.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Winner: Settling by Sarah J. Storer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with extreme pleasure that I announce the first ever Weekly Writing Assignment winner!
Drumroll please&#8230;
The first winner of Weekly Assignment is &#8220;Settling&#8221; by Sarah J. Storer!
Why this won.
I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all dying to know what made this the winning piece. In a word: originality. Sarah showed a nibleness in using all the random words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Finalist: Settling by Sarah J. Storer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I awake to the cacophony of pans hitting Formica.  He is cooking breakfast again.  The kind of breakfast that you eat and eat until you’re so full, you feel like your esophagus rests on a pillow of eggs and ham.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Finalist: Untitled by Gavin St. Ours</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I'm worried about you."

She appeared at my office instead of worrying over the phone. I knew something was different when I buzzed her up.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Finalist: The List, by Jacob Batchelor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rules dictated that he go to California. It had been two long weeks since the mysterious list of commands had slid under his door, and he was no closer to discovering the meaning of life as promised by what he had come to call “the List”.]]></description>
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