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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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 19, 2015 | 1 true thing, Writing by Writers |
At Writing by Writers in Boulder, Alan Heathcock asked this question, “What do you find interesting?” ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 18, 2015 | 1 true thing, Pam Houston, Writing by Writers |
Writing, writing, writing–story, character, tone, dialogue. These few days in Boulder are all about craft. “Tone is what you hear through the motel walls,” Gary Ferguson said in his craft talk this morning. “There are no rules,” Pam...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 17, 2015 | 1 true thing, Writing by Writers |
Coming to you from Boulder, Colorado, at a Writing by Writers workshop taking place at the Colorado Chautauqua, where what I was most struck by today were the tulips in the snow. I’m not a gardener, but I love flowers, as in, in the house, and I especially love...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 16, 2015 | 1 true thing, reading |
I read a lot of books at one time. Right now I’m reading Abigail Thomas’s What Comes Next and How to Like It (memoir); Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed (essay anthology); Donald Hall’s Essays After Eighty, Hermione Lee’s Penelope Fitzgerald A...
