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		<title>Lessons From Genny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote this short story about 7 years ago.  It&#8217;s based on a real moment and real conversation that I overheard at church one Sunday morning.  A few weeks ago, I pulled it out to use in the beginning fiction workshop course that was part of my creative writing program at SNHU.  I went [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leftovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew rolled his eyes.&#160; “Leftovers,” he said with an air of disgust that only a preteen can muster, “are disgusting.” His younger brother breathed an exaggerated sigh of agreement.&#160; “Can’t we just order pizza?” I squeezed my eyes shut, took a deep breath, and counted to ten.&#160; All calming tricks I’d learned in my years [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1297&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watermelon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a big fan of fruits.&#160; As far as I can remember, I never have been.&#160; It’s not a taste thing so much as a texture thing.&#160; Most fruits feel odd and squishy in my mouth.&#160; Makes me squirm just to think about it.&#160; And then there are the seeds.&#160; I cannot stand [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1295&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Write&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>https://lynnmcmo.com/2013/09/04/why-i-writeagain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn McMonigal]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve talked about it before, and I will probably talk about it again.  Most every writer is asked the question.  And the answer, for many of us, changes as we grow and our writing evolves.  In this blog, I have covered more times than I can count at the moment the reasons that I write.  [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1289&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Poisoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She didn’t want to poison him, not really.&#160; Not enough to kill him anyway.&#160; But if she could make him just a little bit sick…. She heard about food poisoning on the news.&#160; It happened quite often, actually, and almost always was seen as an accidental thing.&#160; Something wasn’t cooked long enough or perhaps it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1285&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Writing Question</title>
		<link>https://lynnmcmo.com/2013/08/26/the-writing-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do you write? If you are a writer, you will be asked that question at least once in your life.  I can’t count the number of times I’ve been asked it.  And it seems like every time I hear the question, the answer changes.  Oh, at the heart of it, the answer is the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1282&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee &amp; Cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Your total is $12.92.” Ginny tried to put some sort of feeling into the words, tried to make them sound as friendly as she hoped the smile on her face looked.&#160; Truth was, she just wasn’t feeling it today.&#160; She handed over the pack of Marlboros, watched her customer run his credit card through the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1278&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skipping Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two best friends during my school years, one in middle school and one in high school.&#160; These two girls were different in so many ways.&#160; Thinking back, I can name only three things that they had in common: they attended the same school, they liked New Kids on the Block, and they both [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1276&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rules of Writing Christian Fiction</title>
		<link>https://lynnmcmo.com/2013/08/24/the-rules-of-writing-christian-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a lot of ideas for novels, and I’ve looked at the guidelines set forth by a lot of Christian publishers to see where some of my ideas fit in.&#160; It has amazed me to see that stories I would consider “Christian fiction” would not be acceptable by some publishing houses.&#160; Why?&#160; Because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1280&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monologging</title>
		<link>https://lynnmcmo.com/2013/08/23/monologging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am enjoying some time off between terms.&#160; *SIGH*&#160; Oh, it’s been nice!&#160; Don&#8217;t get me wrong—I have no regrets about being back in school.&#160; I know this is the right thing for me to do, it’s the right thing for me and for my family.&#160; When I started in January, though, I did not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lynnmcmo.com&#038;blog=7635737&#038;post=1274&#038;subd=lynnscorner&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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