by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 28, 2015 | 1 true thing, poetry |
Wherever I go, I always take at least one book of poetry. This time, I brought three, and since there are still two days remaining in National Poetry Month, I thought I would tell you which books I brought, none of which I opened, but as my mother says of unworn shoes...
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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 23, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
My preference is an aisle seat (I get claustrophobic) except for the bulkhead (of course I like to keep my stuff under the seat in front of me). But yesterday on the flight from Atlanta to Boston, I got upgraded to first class–a window seat. I was reading, but...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 22, 2015 | 1 true thing |
100 daily posts. As I saw this milestone approaching, I have to admit I thought, well 100–that would be a nice place to stop. And I don’t know if any of you noticed, but when I published yesterday’s post, it went out as “poetry: 99/100.”...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 21, 2015 | 1 true thing, poetry |
Right off the bat, I should come clean with the fact that I love the slim volumes–there’s something so elegant about them. I read different poets for different reasons. I love Carl Phillips and Mary Oliver, to speak of two extremes. Rather than fiction or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 20, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’ve written three novels about marriage. Whether or not to get into it. Whether or not to get out of it. Being in it for a long time. And now, I’ve almost finished novel #4–about whether or not marriage can work when two people who love each other...
