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Girls Talk #3 Yakking With Lynn
The half way point, Mimi Rose, Iowa, the guys
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SEX, BETRAYAL, POV
I just want to talk Girls with Lynn Steger Strong

March 2024

What's Girls To You?
A conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
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The Girls Are Got In
In How Fiction Works, James Wood, writing about character, quotes Ford Maddox Ford’s on Joseph Conrad’s notion of “getting a character in.” “Ford and…
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Reading for the Plot
When I shifted from writing poetry to writing stories, I thought—a rookie thought—that I’d just be able to do it. It was around 1980 and minimalism was…
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February 2024

Back to Blank
A clean page draft—why?
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"I won't panic."
Looking at a great scene of character transformation
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January 2024

December 2023

All We Are Saying
I can’t remember when I first learned about peace. The word seems always to have been there, in prayers and benedictions (Peace Be With you, Pax…
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I Saw Him With My Own Sad Eyes
I must have been older than seven, because it happened after we’d moved to my grandparents’ house. Probably eight. The girls at school told me that if…
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To Whom This May Concern
The semester is over except for the grading and the letters of recommendation—LORS. These kept me from applying to residencies or fellowships for…
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November 2023

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