Comments on: suggestible: 26/365 https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/ Catching Days Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:21:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5450 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:21:11 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5450 In reply to Claire Guyton.

I feel really good about where I am now with this particular truth. Amazing that you can tune it all out. I know one other person who can do the same.

]]> By: Claire Guyton https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5449 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:38:11 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5449 Hell’s yes! And congratulations on getting past the confusion wrought by readers. I saw that reaction so often in workshop, and it can be so frustrating to watch someone drift this way and that way as the windy critiquers do blow on. I have ONE advantage as a writer, and it’s my ability to ignore that shit. I wish I could gift it to every writer. And I wish every workshop participant for the rest of time would go into workshop knowing that the point of the gathering and the preparation is to use mss to elucidate and then discuss issues of craft that we can all benefit from understanding better, and NEVER, absolutely NEVER, to “fix” anyone’s work. You can’t and shouldn’t try to write by committee. So again: A huge high-five from Maine.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5448 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:44:22 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5448 In reply to Kirie.

Thanks, Kirie. Great to hear you’re writing AND sending out. Good for you!

]]> By: Kirie https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5447 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:46:39 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5447 In reply to cynthia.

Thanks for remembering our common heroines, Cynthia! Yes, I’m writing every day and sending out every day. Or almost. Showing up at the page. Fifteen minutes, I bribe myself, and then I’m off, often a big smile on my face. Love your blog!

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5446 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:25:26 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5446 In reply to Kirie.

Kirie, my Ellen Gilchrist/Annie Dillard pal, I’m so sorry you had such a bad graduate experience. Mine, at VCFA, was wonderful. I started to write that it had nothing to do with wanting to please and everything to do with overload, but perhaps I need to think about the wanting-to-please. I appreciate your mentioning that. It’s so great to hear from you again. I hope you’re back to writing now?

]]> By: Kirie https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5445 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:43:01 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5445 That’s what I experienced in a graduate program in fiction writing and literature. For me, it was wanting to please. My thesis committee members didn’t get along, fairly common in academia, and I’d go office to office for critique knowing each would disagree with the previous. The students were often competitive rather than helpful. By the end, I had little identity or joy in writing. I completed the degree and crashed.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5444 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:48:32 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5444 In reply to Katharine Davis.

Yes, Katharine!

]]> By: Katharine Davis https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5443 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:19:19 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5443 I agree! There’s a time for joining and a time for pulling out.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5442 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:13:22 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5442 In reply to Darrelyn Saloom.

Thanks, D! Hope all is good with you.

]]> By: Darrelyn Saloom https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2015/02/suggestible-26365/#comment-5441 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 05:21:04 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=14869#comment-5441 I’m so glad to hear it, C. Sometimes we have to kill our darlings, but sometimes we need to fight for them, too.

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