What I Imagined Motherhood Would Be, and What It Is
When you give birth to a life, you are also giving birth to a death.
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Lynn is teaching the current iteration of our 12-month novel generator. If you would like to apply for the next iteration, you can find more information here.
Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in March 2016. She received an MFA from Columbia University and her non-fiction has been published in Guernica, LARB, Elle.com, Catapult, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She teaches both fiction and non-fiction writing at Columbia University, Fairfield University, and the Pratt Institute.
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How To Finish
Three ways of thinking that might help you get the damned novel done, from our beloved 12-Month Novel Generator instructor, Lynn Steger Strong (author of HOLD STILL)
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Fitzgerald was ground down, I imagine, consumed by how to take care of her family. This didn’t make her any less the thinker, writer, reader, that she was.
Capture This: How We Live Away From the Lens
I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.
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We share a weakening grasp on a native language, and this is something that ties us together.
Cigarettes and Turpentine: An Ode to My Artist-Mother
“The women I admire most are artist-mothers, who are able to create with pleasure and abandon.”
The Version We Remember: On the Truth and Fiction of Photography
We remember only a version of the story, and we tell only a fraction of that version. And sometimes, even that will fail us.