<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[L. M. Poplin]]></title><description><![CDATA[L. M. Poplin]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:52:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.lmpoplin.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Writer's Becoming]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Originally published at https://www.blackrosewriting.com/podcast/a-writers-becoming on June 15, 2019.) When I was fifteen, my father...]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/post/a-writer-s-becoming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d691e457d5b6a0017c25006</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:11:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/266e56_e93adef4f92246c7986473d077c2609d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_958,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>L. M. Poplin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gift of Not Choosing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody warned me when I set out to become a writer that the job would require self-promotion. Not even in grad school, when I first...]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/post/the-gift-of-not-choosing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c9553eca0c85c001cf3cd79</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:52:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/266e56_b7ae79db961047269274e7454e85e65f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_480,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>L. M. Poplin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community]]></title><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose between trying to sell a novel or writing a new one, I would choose writing a new one. Hands down. Every time. And yet...]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/post/community</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c59d6eaa0c240063a2e43d1</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:40:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/266e56_58dd34fcf92248afac1dd1e53b5170ca~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_723,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>L. M. Poplin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Writers Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since I’m not interesting enough to write memoir, and not scholarly enough to write non-fiction, I’ve staked my claim in the fictional...]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/post/what-writers-do</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c59de08acad7406df867310</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:09:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/266e56_2bcfe5bf9b9440839e0495c8f6c0ee97~mv2_d_2982_2205_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>L. M. Poplin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Displaced]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have never really felt as though I belonged. At first I believed my sense of displacement was chronological, owing largely to my...]]></description><link>https://www.lmpoplin.com/post/displaced</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c59cba6b509a0046fcbe3fb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:19:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/266e56_325d2ca0d5a340e5bc6a125f400a761a~mv2_d_3000_2249_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>L. M. Poplin</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>