Comments on: until I see what I say https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/ Catching Days Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:48:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: what I’m thinking: 62/365 | catching days https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-165 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:48:36 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-165 […] the archives Until I See What I Say September 16, […]

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-164 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:55:35 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-164 In reply to Linda.

Rereading what I’ve written the day before to know what comes next is becoming more and more the way I write. Apparently Frank Conroy was on to something!

And I love those moments when I finally arrive at the right word. It’s such a process–usually a piling on and then a scraping away. Or I’ll think I have it, and then the next day, no that’s not right. Yes, such a peaceful feeling when I get it right.

]]> By: Linda https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-163 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:53:02 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-163 In reply to cynthia.

Oh, yes, I do this too … re-read what I’ve written until my character makes the next move, speaks the next line. And when that doesn’t happen, I know I’ve forced something and need to revise.

]]> By: Linda https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-162 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:48:52 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-162 “… getting the words just right.” YES! I often find myself frustrated, knowing the perfect word, the perfect phrase is just there … out of reach … on the tip of my fingers, as it were. It’s such a joy when the mind finally clears and you snatch it for your own.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-161 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:07:10 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-161 In reply to peggy.

What a great comment. This is true and I need to remember it. Apparently Frank Conroy was big on this. “He used to say that in his own writing he’d read and re-read what he’d written the day before until he knew what to do next.”

]]> By: peggy https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-160 Tue, 12 May 2009 16:20:05 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-160 Interesting–” . . . until I see what I say.”
Writing to me is very visual. I can think about a character, or a story, or a setting, forever. But until I see the words on the page–the form they create, the way the words string together, the picture the words paint–there is no story at all.

]]> By: Blanche https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-159 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:12:56 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-159 I read for that reason, too. I also have many notebooks going back seventeen years, in which I have copied down sentences and paragraphs from books that I have loved and don’t want to forget. They also seem to remain true over the years.

]]> By: bobby https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2008/09/until-i-see-what-i-say/#comment-158 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:36:47 +0000 http://cynthianewberrymartin.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-158 “must be maddening to a listener…”

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