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	<title>Miranda Kenneally</title>
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		<title>When Writing, Do You Trust Your First Instincts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 7th grade science teacher once told me, “Miranda, a human being’s first instinct is correct 90% of the time. If you’re going to deviate from your first instinct, you’d better have a good reason why you should.” Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is hard science or what, but I live by it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/09/03/when-writing-do-you-trust-your-first-instincts/</link>
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		<title>Uncle Charlie’s Broken Arm Syndrome, Sailing, and Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband’s aunt and uncle just returned from a ten-month sailing trip, which spanned from Washington, D.C., down the Atlantic Coast to the Florida Keys and throughout the Caribbean.  Yesterday, we saw them for the first time, and boy, had they changed. First of all, they have more muscles than the Hulk.  Second, they seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/07/10/uncle-charlie%e2%80%99s-broken-arm-syndrome-sailing-and-writing/</link>
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		<title>ALA Swag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a really great time at the American Library Association Conference, which is still taking place in Washington, D.C. thru Tuesday. I met a lot of nice people and got to ogle some amazing authors, e.g. John Green. He waved at me, and I just about died. Someone dared me to eat a larvae, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/06/27/ala-swag/</link>
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		<title>The State of Affairs at the Coffee Station (and writing!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  As you can see from the picture, getting coffee is a dangerous game.  I took this picture at a non-peak hour – usually there are about 20 people crowded around this station.  I’m surprised I come out unscathed (for the most part &#8211; I’ve been burned a few times).    Here’s how it goes down: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/06/22/the-state-of-affairs-at-the-coffee-station-and-writing/</link>
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		<title>Take it to the Limit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last fall at the James River Writers conference, I went to a session on what&#8217;s funny and what&#8217;s not, and the general consensus from the panel was that EVERYTHING in the world is funny, DEPENDING on the context. But is that really true? Are Bosnian war crimes funny? Are kidnappings funny? Is watching all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/06/06/take-it-to-the-limit/</link>
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		<title>KISSING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know how important the kissing scenes are in YA. They can be exciting, loving, awkward, sweet, fun&#8230; I bet there are about 80,000 words to describe a perfect kiss. On occasion, I&#8217;ve read YA books WITHOUT kissing scenes, and well, they just bored me to tears. If you&#8217;re going to build up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/06/04/kissing/</link>
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		<title>What People Want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy following Cassandra Marshall on Twitter. She&#8217;s an intern for a literary agent &#8212; I would love to know which one &#8212; and she often tweets about interesting queries she receives.  I enjoy hearing about trends and what&#8217;s hot (and not) right now. Anyway, a couple weeks ago, this went down: Cassandra tweets: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/05/28/what-people-want/</link>
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		<title>20 Things to Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Madeleine Rex totally inspired me to do this. She&#8217;s about the coolest teenager I know. So here are 20 things I want to say to people who shall remain nameless. Pretty sure I&#8217;ll never say any of this stuff. 1. I am fairly certain you married a succubus. 2.  Your shoes reek! Get them out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/05/24/20-things-to-say/</link>
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		<title>Finding Material (and great pics)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With writing comes lots of staring off into space, and nail biting, and waiting. So when I have writer’s block or I’m taking a break from a book (so necessary!), I try to catch up on reading (any aspiring writer has homework!) and try to get out and see what’s going on in the neighborhood. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/05/16/finding-material-and-great-pics/</link>
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		<title>Throwing myself into a pit of humiliation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my crazy friend and Survivor-watcher Emily (@emilytastic on twitter) is constantly talking about how she loved Hanson more than anything in high school. Now she&#8217;s uploading scans of her high school journal on her blog. I especially enjoy her stories about how the evil biology teacher ridiculed her in front of the whole class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mirandakenneally.com/2010/05/06/throwing-myself-into-a-pit-of-humiliation/</link>
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