Elizabeth Strout on writing: persistence, scene-by-scene discovery, and deep empathy. Her words from a literary event years ago still resonate.
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Mornings on the Charles Bridge, the chime of the Astronomical Clock, cafés where history lingers in the air. Prague always finds a way to slow time.
Read my story, “City of a Hundred Spires,” in Montgomery Magazine (pages 13–14):
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Seventeen years after my first visit, I returned to Prague—this time with family. The city felt both familiar and new, its spires, bridges, and quiet courtyards still carrying their old magic.
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Michael Cunningham once said that if you don’t feel slightly in over your head, you’re not challenging yourself enough as a writer. The best work lives in that space between clarity and chaos—where the story starts to breathe on its own.
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