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		<title>You Read About Local Politics and Hate the Sox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new piece of Craigslist Fiction up today at Staccato Fiction. It&#8217;s nice and short and you can read it here. You could, with a few bucks to spare, also buy the first issue of Thirty First Bird Review and read my story &#8220;The Presentation of the Virgin.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/you-read-about-local-politics-and-hate-the-sox/</link>
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		<title>A collaboration, a reprint, and a unicorn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. David Backer (from FictionDaily) and I have a new fiction collaboration. It&#8217;s called whtsgngon. It&#8217;s very short fiction based on/reflecting current news stories, and words throughout link to interesting resources and articles from around the web. It&#8217;s a quick read, but the links also provide a chance for some interesting directed reading. 2. Roxane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/a-collaboration-a-reprint-and-a-unicorn/</link>
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		<title>Studying for the NBME Pathology Shelf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because Pathology is a cumulative all-encompassing subject, it makes sense that preparing for the Step 1—reading the First Aid—would be good preparation for Pathology Shelf. And while that would work, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the best use of your time if you only have a few days to try to cram it all in. Pathology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/medicine/studying-for-the-nbme-pathology-shelf/</link>
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		<title>Experiments in Literary Charity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the month of April, I used Nanoism to run a little experiment in subsidized charity, the 2010 Nanofiction Contest (For Haiti). Perhaps &#8220;subsidized&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite correct—as not all donors received compensation—but I think it sounds better than raffle-backed charity or contest charity. Oh, how about incentivized. Yes, perfect. Either way, writing contests, as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/random/experiments-in-literary-charity/</link>
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		<title>Unhappy Relationships and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my thesis: Death is an event, not a story. Here is my second thesis: A description of one or more (unhappy) people is a character sketch, not a story. A story implies motion. It&#8217;s not just description. Something needs to change. With regards to the twitter-sized fiction that I read on a daily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/unhappy-relationships-and-death/</link>
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		<title>The Nano Title</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Swartwood is hosting a big contest to celebrate Hint Fiction&#8217;s birthday and keep us excited for Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, which comes out in November from Norton. Incidentally, Amazon has a good price right now for preorder, so you might want to jump in on that deal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/the-nano-title/</link>
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		<title>The Mini Step 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For around $35 a pop, your medical school can pay the NBME to let you and your classmates take the Mini Step 1, a 200 question multi-subject basic science test. It&#8217;s hard. Without doing any Step preparation (outside of attending to the usual coursework), I felt absolutely confident in only a handful of questions. That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/medicine/the-mini-step-1/</link>
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		<title>Microchondria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received my contributor&#8217;s copy of Harvard Book Store&#8217;s Microchondria yesterday in the mail. It&#8217;s that great pocket size and a pretty neat project. And since I was fortunate enough to earn two out of the forty-two spots, my stories also make up 1/21 of the final product (one, &#8220;Consumer Reports,&#8221; is a traditional short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/microchondria/</link>
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		<title>Milestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new story up at Everyday Genius, called &#8220;Milestones.&#8221; Thanks go to March editor Laura Ellen Scott, now slated to be the fiction editor for Prick of the Spindle, which should be good things for LES and good things for POTS, so cheers all around. I like acronyms. This story is actually based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/milestones/</link>
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		<title>Litwit Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Backer of FictionDaily has a guest post over at The Millions, Long Live Fiction: A Guide to Fiction Online. It&#8217;s a great, positive look of a newcomer to the world of fiction publishing online. A year ago I also literally had no idea these sites or the writers that populate them even existed. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benwhite.com/writing/litwit-love/</link>
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