by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 27, 2015 | 1 true thing, my writing |
My brain is fried. But I’m finished with this draft. Will sleep on it and maybe fiddle with it in the morning, maybe not. And then off it will go to my agent. I usually give myself all sorts of deadlines (as you’ve now witnessed), but for this draft, I let...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 26, 2015 | 1 true thing, craft of writing, Pam Houston |
Too much sitting, not enough moving. This morning my body hurt. I stretched, then I set the timer on my phone for an hour, and when it went off, I got down on the floor and stretched again. Then I reset the timer. At one, I went to run–thirty minutes of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 25, 2015 | 1 true thing, my writing |
So today at 4:30, I finished reading out loud. Here’s a look inside my mind: Saturday: 9 pages in 1 hour Tuesday: 9 pages in 1/2 an hour Wednesday: 16 pages in 1 1/2 hours Thursday: 52 pages in 6 hours Friday: 84 pages in 9 hours Saturday: 95 pages in 8 1/2...
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by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 24, 2015 | 1 true thing, craft of writing, my writing, provincetown |
I’m in Provincetown doing what I do best–shutting out everything except for the essential in order to complete a project–a hopefully final read-thru on my novel. When I got here on Wednesday, I went to the grocery, and since then, I’ve only...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 24, 2015 | about the current writer, essays, How We Spend Our Days, memoir, poetry, stories |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
