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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 15, 2015 | 1 true thing |
After is usually when I think of it–whatever it is. Not just what I wish I’d said, but what I wish I’d done or eaten or chosen or written or mentioned. You name it. It’s not willful and it’s not through a lack of consideration or...
