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 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...
