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Available at https://pixabay.com/illustrations/letter-study-writing-cat-1697604/.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/writing.png</image:loc><image:title>writing-</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/writing-pen-advice.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writing-pen-advice</image:title><image:caption>Writing Pens</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-04T16:01:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2021/01/26/the-2020-reading-review/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/we_should_all_be_feminists-e1611641990152.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reading Review 2020: We Should All Be Feminists`</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/the-2020-reading-review.png</image:loc><image:title>THE 2020 READING REVIEW</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-01-26T17:32:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2020/08/31/reading-women-in-translation-2020/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_3382.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WITMonth Books R Gould</image:title><image:caption>A fine selection of WITmonth books</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_2753-e1598931303756.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The_Tale_of_Genji</image:title><image:caption>Book titled The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (translated by Royal Tyler). Book cover 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in Writing: Stormy Seas</image:title><image:caption>Stormy seas and shipwrecks feature in disaster novels such as Jamrach's Menagerie.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weather-in-writing-blizzard.jpg</image:loc><image:title>weather in writing blizzard</image:title><image:caption>A blizzard, a manor house, and murder occur in Agatha Christie's Three Blind Mice.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weathin-writing-hurricane.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Weather in Writing: Hurricane</image:title><image:caption>A hurricane blows through Florida</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/weather-in-writing-fog.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Weather in Writing: Fog</image:title><image:caption>A foggy night, such as might be seen in  Long Day's Journey into Night.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-03T01:52:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/12/28/halfway-there-midway-and-beyond-of-nanowrimo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/nano-2018-winner-badge.png</image:loc><image:title>nano-2018-winner-badge</image:title><image:caption>Not to brag (okay, a little), but I did successfully complete my first NaNoWriMo!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-10T17:59:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/12/30/the-reading-review-books-past-and-future/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_2018-reading-review.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2017_2018 reading review</image:title><image:caption>Books: the best way to start a new year.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-09T04:57:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/08/16/on-reading-women-in-translation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/onreadingwomenintrans2018.jpg</image:loc><image:title>onreadingwomenintrans2018</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-09T04:56:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/11/12/notes-from-nanowrimo2018/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/guinea-pig-note_from_nanowrimo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>guinea-pig-note_from_nanowrimo</image:title><image:caption>Birthday festivities. (Writer's actual child not shown.)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/notes-from-nanowrimo.png</image:loc><image:title>Notes from NaNoWriMo</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/weds_walk_notes_from_nanowrimp.jpg</image:loc><image:title>weds_walk_notes_from_nanowrimo</image:title><image:caption>It's a lovelyfor a morning walk, but it's too spooky on Halloween.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dino_acadsci_notes_from_nanowrimo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dino_acadsci_notes_from_nanowrimo</image:title><image:caption>One of the dinosaurs at the Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/backstreets_magnify_notes_from_nanowrimo.png</image:loc><image:title>Backstreets_magnify_Notes_from_Nanowrimo</image:title><image:caption>I intend to focus on The Backstreets of Purgatory by Helen M. Taylor in the near future. For now, you'll have to take my word that it was great.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-14T05:34:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/11/01/taking-the-nanowrimo-plunge/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nanowrimo.png</image:loc><image:title>NaNoWriMo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-03T14:03:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/10/19/the-hour-of-the-star-review/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/hour-of-star-review-e1539934730232.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hour-of-star-review</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-25T14:24:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/10/06/inciting-incident/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/inciting-incident-interrupt-flow.jpg</image:loc><image:title>inciting-incident-interrupt-flow</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/inciting-incident-freytag-pyramid.png</image:loc><image:title>inciting-incident-freytag-pyramid</image:title><image:caption>Gustav's Freytag's "pyramid", which represents his theory of dramatic structure. [Illustration.] Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure#/media/File:Freytags_pyramid.svg.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-11T06:26:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/08/03/summertime-and-writing-isnt-easy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/summertime_writing_tie_dye.jpg</image:loc><image:title>summertime_writing_tie_dye</image:title><image:caption>Summer project 2018: tie-dye shirts that (hopefully) will be easier on the eyes than the cheap plastic tablecloth is.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-20T12:30:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/07/16/review-of-the-chicken-soup-murder/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_9121.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The Chicken Soup Murder</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-23T13:07:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/06/23/eight-excuses-why-broke-book-buying-ban/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/eight-reasons-broke-book-ban.png</image:loc><image:title>eight-reasons-broke-book-ban</image:title><image:caption>Actual book stack of unread books may be larger and more likely to tip over.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-23T22:05:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/07/08/reading-resolution/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/reading-resolutions-beach.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reading-resolutions-beach</image:title><image:caption>I'd like to read Les Misérables at the shore, but the splashing is too distracting.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/reading-resolution-books-stacked2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reading-resolution-books-stacked</image:title><image:caption>How do your reading resolutions stack up against your to-read list?</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-23T20:35:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/06/08/summer-reading-women-writers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/woman_writing_summer_reading.png</image:loc><image:title>woman_writing_summer_reading</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-08T20:45:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/02/17/lingering-tbr/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/linger-read-fuller.jpg</image:loc><image:title>linger-read-fuller</image:title><image:caption>Margaret Fuller’s Women in the Nineteenth Century likely holds the title for being on my to-read list the longest—for a good reason. While I’m interested in reading this work since it informs the women’s rights movement in the United States, parsing her sentences can be challenging.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/linger-read-stack.jpg</image:loc><image:title>linger-read-stack</image:title><image:caption>Books lingering on the to-read list.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-07T14:40:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/05/31/travel-subtly-shapes-fiction/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/travel-shapes-fic-tracks.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel-shapes-fic-tracks</image:title><image:caption>Misdirection and hidden motives make</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/travel-shapes-fic-hedges.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel-shapes-fic-hedges</image:title><image:caption>The reasons why characters wander often profoundly shape the course of their stories.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/travel-shapes-fic-passport.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel-shapes-fic-passport</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-07T14:38:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/06/12/reading-women-month-spreading-the-word-about-women-writers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/reading-women-month-promote-women-writers.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reading Women Month: Spreading the Word About Women Writers. Text by R. E. Gould</image:title><image:caption>Reading Women introduce #readingwomenmonth to share works written by women.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-06-06T15:20:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/04/14/lifting-the-bell-jar/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/plath-belljar-review-rgould.jpg</image:loc><image:title>plath-belljar-review-rgould</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-12T10:10:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/02/11/public-reading-love-libraries/</loc><lastmod>2018-04-10T15:07:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/03/26/writing-nevers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/writingnevers.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writingnevers</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-29T19:30:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/03/11/read-women-history-month-beyond/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/whyireadwomen-iwd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>whyIreadwomen-iwd</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-11T06:20:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/02/26/ethics-henrietta-lacks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/slacks-ethics-microscope1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slacks ethics microscope</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/immortal_life_lacks_ethics_cover-e1520544970529.jpg</image:loc><image:title>immortal_life_lacks_ethics_cover</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/slacks-ethics-microscope.jpg</image:loc><image:title>slacks-ethics-microscope</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-30T07:55:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/01/27/an-alaskan-legend-wallis/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/alaska-legend-wallis-plow-posts.jpg</image:loc><image:title>alaska legend wallis plow posts</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/alaska-legend-wallis-glacial.jpg</image:loc><image:title>alaska legend wallis glacial</image:title><image:caption>Glacier Bay, Alaska. Photo by Rita E. Gould</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/alaska-legend-wallis-forest.jpg</image:loc><image:title>alaska legend wallis forest</image:title><image:caption>Sitka spruce (Alaskan Rainforest Sanctuary, Ketchikan, Alaska. Photo by Rita E. Gould). </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-08T18:33:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/09/28/social-reading-recs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/social-media-books-library.jpg</image:loc><image:title>social-media-books-library</image:title><image:caption>Social reading isn’t just for libraries.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/social-media-books-recs.png</image:loc><image:title>social-media-books-recs</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/social-media-books-bmore-bookfest.jpg</image:loc><image:title>social-media-books-bmore-bookfest</image:title><image:caption>Baltimore Book Festival 2017, as seen from the Ferris wheel. (Photo by R. E. Gould.)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-16T19:31:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/02/10/writing-done-wrong/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/writing-wrong-snow-child.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writing-wrong-snow-child</image:title><image:caption>Eowyn Ivey choose to leave potentially magical Faina's origin unresolved, something she signals by omitting quotation marks when the dialogue involves Faina.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/writing-wrong-broken-pencil.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writing-wrong-broken-pencil</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/writing-wrong-pratchett-book-e1518303280902.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writing-wrong-pratchett-book</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-10T23:48:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2016/12/31/closing-with-character/</loc><lastmod>2018-02-10T22:18:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/01/19/hidden-scientific-history-humboldt-nature/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hiddenhistorymuirwoodssequoia.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hiddenhistorymuirwoodssequoia</image:title><image:caption>Nature writer, preservationist, and Sierra Club founder John Muir was among those whom Humboldt inspired. As an activist, Muir campaigned to designate several areas (eg, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon) as national parks. (Photo of sequoias in Muir Woods Monument. Credit: Jeremy S. Henderson.)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hiddenhistorywaldenpond.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hiddenhistorywaldenpond</image:title><image:caption>Henry David Thoreau's book, Walden, was heavily influenced by Humboldt's writings, in particular his book Visions of Nature. (Walden Pond. Credit: Rita E. Gould.)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hiddenhistoryhumboldt.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hiddenhistoryhumboldt</image:title><image:caption>Alexander von Humboldt by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1843.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-29T06:51:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/04/23/destination-reading-travel/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/destination-reading-bike.jpg</image:loc><image:title>destination reading bike</image:title><image:caption>While selecting books before travel is often encouraged, reading and biking simultaneously is not.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/destination-reading-luggae.jpg</image:loc><image:title>destination reading luggage</image:title><image:caption>Packed and ready to read for travel.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/luggage-1991146_640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luggage-1991146_640</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/destination-reading-atlas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>destination reading atlas</image:title><image:caption>Destination Reading: Plotting What to Read for Trave. Text by Rita Gould</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-26T22:41:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2018/01/07/the-writing-reboot/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/writing-reboot1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>writing-reboot</image:title><image:caption>In which I finally give the boot to a several projects on the roster and move onto better writing prospects.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-30T16:50:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/10/29/getting-women-right-sciences-evolving-view-on-women/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/femalebody-saini-inferior-science-e1512832983602.png</image:loc><image:title>femalebody-saini-inferior-science</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/evolution-saini-inferior-review2.png</image:loc><image:title>evolution-saini-inferior-review</image:title><image:caption>Darwin assumed men drove evolution but newer studies focus on how evolutionary forces affected women, dispelling notions of female passivity, inferiority, and even chastity.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/brain-saini-inferior-review.png</image:loc><image:title>brain-saini-inferior-review</image:title><image:caption>Among the cases where "facts are greyer" than people find comfortable when disputing biological essentialism, testosterone appears to have some small effects on brain development.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-09T15:24:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/12/09/right-time-to-read-readers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/right-time-to-read-train.jpg</image:loc><image:title>right-time-to-read-train</image:title><image:caption>If you want to read on the road, make sure you're a passenger.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/right-time-to-read-exercise-e1512761707872.jpg</image:loc><image:title>right-time-to-read-exercise</image:title><image:caption>I suppose there's worse ways to stretch both your legs and your mind.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/right-time-to-read-child-e1512761196452.jpg</image:loc><image:title>right-time-to-read-child</image:title><image:caption>Unlike a Secret Reader, this young person doesn't have another book hidden in her textbook.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-09T15:05:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/11/26/clean-sweep-righting-my-writing-space/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/clean-sweep-writing-depressors.jpg</image:loc><image:title>clean-sweep-writing-depressors</image:title><image:caption>Things that also don't belong in a desk drawer: tongue depressors.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/clean-sweep-writing-rake.jpg</image:loc><image:title>clean-sweep-writing-rake</image:title><image:caption>Things that don't belong in a desk drawer: the recently acquired shrub rake.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/clean-sweep-writing-cluttered.png</image:loc><image:title>clean-sweep-writing-cluttered</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-05T02:09:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/11/11/a-readers-road-trip-to-orchard-house/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/houghton_fhm_ms_am_2242_-_louisa_may_alcott.jpg</image:loc><image:title>houghton_fhm_ms_am_2242_-_louisa_may_alcott</image:title><image:caption>American author Louisa May Alcott (by an unidentifed . Printed in a collection published privately, 1915. Frederick Hill Meserve's Historical Portraits (MS Am 2242), Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityBy Photographer unidentified [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. {ublished in the U.S. before 1923 and public domain in the U.S.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/reader-road-trip-walden-thoreau.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reader road trip walden thoreau</image:title><image:caption>Someone thought Thoreau's statue at Walden Pond needed a snack and fittingly chose an apple. (Photo by Rita E. Gould.)
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/reader-road-trip-walden-pond.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reader road trip walden pond</image:title><image:caption>Walden Pond</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/reader-road-trip-orchard-house.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reader road trip orchard house</image:title><image:caption>Orchard House, home to Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-11-12T20:11:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/09/19/fiction-hobby-in-fiction-setting-plot/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobby-fiction-bowling.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobby-fiction-bowling</image:title><image:caption>In addition to confirming Albus Dumbledore’s academic credentials and reputation for dealing with dark wizards, this Famous Witch and Wizarding card informs us that Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and ten-pin bowling, a possible nod to Dumbledore’s more whimsical side.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobby-fiction-caravan.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobby-fiction-caravan</image:title><image:caption>While exploring his passion for travel in a horse-drawn caravan, Toad and company's Toad’s road trip goes horribly awry when he discovers the agent of his own downfall: the motorcar.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobby-fiction-garbage_pail_kids.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobby-fiction-garbage_pail_kids</image:title><image:caption>The popularity of the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards was sufficient enough to warrant a vinyl doll. Cuddle up! (Photo credit: R. Gould.)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-05T15:32:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/09/12/hobbies-in-fiction-character-theme/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobby-fiction-tennis.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobby-fiction-tennis</image:title><image:caption>We may not know how Sylvia Keene plays tennis, but we know she looks good doing it.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fishing-72874_640.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fishing-72874_640</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobby-fiction-reading.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobby-fiction-reading</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobbyinfiction.png</image:loc><image:title>hobbyinfiction</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobbies-bottle-ship.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobbies-bottle-ship</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hobbies-ship-bottle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hobbies-ship-bottle</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-20T01:33:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/08/22/empathy-for-difficult-characters/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/heart_difficult_characters_calligraphy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>heart_difficult_characters_calligraphy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/heart_difficult_characters_liquor.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Heart_difficult_characters_liquor</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/heart_difficult_characters_rock.jpg</image:loc><image:title>heart_difficult_characters_rock</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-09T07:21:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2016/12/07/writing-holmes-hobbies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sherlock-holmes-investigates1.png</image:loc><image:title>Sleuthing: Morre than mere hobby</image:title><image:caption>Sherlock Holmes seeking clues.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/holmes-sitting-room1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Sherlock Holmes's Sitting Room</image:title><image:caption>Reproduction of Sherlock Holmes's sitting room (as seen at The Sherlock Holmes Museum), featuring the "patriotic V. R." he shot into the wall ("The Mustgrave Ritual"). Photo by R. Gould.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/holmes_bust.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Writing Holmes: How Conan Doyle Harnessed Hobbies for Sleuthing by Rita E. Gould</image:title><image:caption>Holmes contemplating crimes and hobbies. (Bust of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. On display at Sherlock Holmes Museum in London. [Photograph by R. Gould.])</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-06T15:11:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/09/01/yoshimoto-kitchen-review/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/yoshimoto-kitchen-review-kitchen-e1504224955682.jpg</image:loc><image:title>yoshimoto-kitchen-review-kitchen</image:title><image:caption>“It was a good kitchen. I fell in love with it at first sight." Mikage Sakurai in Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (translated by Megan Backus). </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/yofu_katsudon2c_kaneko-ya_yamada_honten2c_nagaoka-e1504223758839.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Katsudon</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-15T17:28:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/08/06/witmonth-2017/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/witmonth.jpg</image:loc><image:title>witmonth</image:title><image:caption>Books</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-23T18:51:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/02/03/drama-dinner-table/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/banquet-dining-table.jpg</image:loc><image:title>banquet-dining-table</image:title><image:caption>Manor house banquet table</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/drama-at-dinner-table.jpg</image:loc><image:title>drama-at-dinner-table</image:title><image:caption>Drama at the Dinner Table</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-01T03:38:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/05/11/soul-searching-swing-time/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/review-swing-time-pointe-shoes.jpg</image:loc><image:title>review-swing-time-pointe-shoes</image:title><image:caption>Soul Searching in Swing Time: Identity and Friendship by R. E. Gould</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/review-swing-time.jpg</image:loc><image:title>review-swing-time</image:title><image:caption>Soul Searching in Swing Time: Identity and Friendship by R. E. Gould</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-31T05:58:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/06/05/editing-tactics-for-weak-wording/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/revise_keyboard_editing_tactics.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Backspace key. Self-Editing: Tactics for Taming Weak Wording. Text by R. Gould</image:title><image:caption>There's a reason keyboards have backspace and delete keys.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/red-pen-editing-tactics.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Red Pen. Self-Editing: Tactics for Taming Weak Wording. Text by R. Gould</image:title><image:caption>Get ready to revise.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cat_editing_tactics.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat. Self-Editing: Tactics for Taming Weak Wording. Text by R. Gould</image:title><image:caption>The cat isn't yawning; she's bored by filler words and cliches.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/gavel_editing_tactics.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Self-Editing: Tactics for Taming Weak Wording. Text by R. Gould</image:title><image:caption>Objection, your Honor! Weak wording appears in dialogue to simulate natural speech patterns!</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-07-28T03:24:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/07/28/blogging-travel-alaska/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/travel_blog_dalls_porpoise.png</image:loc><image:title>travel_blog_dalls_porpoise</image:title><image:caption>I missed Google when I couldn’t use it to identify sea mammals (here, a Dall's porpoise) but not as much as when I realized I needed to download WordPress.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/travel_mendenhall-_glacier.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel_mendenhall _glacier</image:title><image:caption>The speed of typing on a semi-defective keyboard seemed oddly familiar after visiting Glacier Bay. (Photo by R. Gould.)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/travel-blog-menu_keyboard.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel-blog-menu_keyboard</image:title><image:caption>It might like look the wine list, but it's a wireless keyboard. (Photo by R. Gould.)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/travel-blog-writing.jpg</image:loc><image:title>travel-blog-writing</image:title><image:caption>Packing minimal writing gear for travel</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2023-10-05T18:37:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/07/15/reading-on-the-road/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1448-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_1448-1</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Jeremy Henderson. Used with permission.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-08-10T22:38:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/06/20/hidden-figures-nasa-black-women-mathematicians/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/friden_hidden_figures-e1497998380107.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FRIDEN_HIDDEN_FIGURES</image:title><image:caption>The Friden calculator was among the calculation machines that human computers used to perform complex calculations. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/we_can_do_it21.jpg</image:loc><image:title>we_can_do_it21</image:title><image:caption>Unlike many wartime women workers, the human computers at Langley continued to be employed at NACA.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/hidden_figures_book_cover.png</image:loc><image:title>hidden_figures_book_cover</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-21T14:03:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/01/06/reading-past-and-future/</loc><lastmod>2025-02-24T03:34:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/01/14/lblind-assassin/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/review-atwood-blind-assassin.png</image:loc><image:title>Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. Review by R. Gould</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-20T20:50:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/05/19/coming-of-age-writing/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/matroeska-comingofageinwriting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>matroeska-comingofageinwriting</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-15T16:48:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/05/28/reading-in-company-audiobooks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/reading-in-company.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reading in Company: The Advantages of Audiobooks</image:title><image:caption>Reading in tandem is easier with audiobooks</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-15T00:42:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/05/02/antagonist-motivation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/treasure-chest-agonizing-antagonist-motivation.jpg</image:loc><image:title>treasure-agonizing-antagonist-motivation</image:title><image:caption>Uncle Matthew's desire to have one last joke on his heirs results in digging up the back garden for hidden treasure. Naturally, it's found in the house.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chainsaw-agonizing-antagonist-motivation.png</image:loc><image:title>chainsaw-agonizing-antagonist-motivation</image:title><image:caption>Annie Wilkes's short-term motivation involved murdering Paul Sheldon with a chainsaw, had she survived her injuries.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-15T00:32:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2016/11/24/room-to-read/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/roomtoread-e1496339227958.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Room to Read</image:title><image:caption>Sisters sharing a book</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-01T17:48:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2016/11/15/clean-writing/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/typewriter-with-clean-page.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Coming Clean About My Writing</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-06-01T15:40:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/03/30/read-it-again-sam-repeat-readers/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/repeat-readers-read-it-again-books.jpg</image:loc><image:title>repeat readers read it again books</image:title><image:caption>Read It Again, Sam: Repeat Readers. By Rita E. Gould, An Artful Sequence of Words</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-05-31T20:30:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2016/12/22/naughtylist/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/santas-list-naughty.jpg</image:loc><image:title>santas-list-naughty</image:title><image:caption>Santa's writing up his naughty and nice list</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-03T02:09:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/03/25/and-now-a-brief-word/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/and_now_a_brief_word-2-e1490466653581.jpg</image:loc><image:title>and_now_a_brief_word (2)</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-04-03T01:59:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/2017/01/21/writing-paper-craft/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://anartfulsequenceofwords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/horsebackdoublex3.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>horsebackdoublex</image:title><image:caption>One of the bad but interesting photos: the double exposures makes it look like a great spirit horse decided to join us on the ride. (Photo by R. 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