by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 16, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, details, journeys, mfa, place, reading, the day |
Thank you to everyone who’s asked what it was like going to my first residency at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. I think it’s taken so long for me to write this post because, in addition to catching up with life and not getting behind on my work, I was...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 8, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, journeys, mfa, place |
I lie down and get back up only minutes later. I close my eyes and then open them. I’m filled up and emptied out at the same time. Exhausted and yet energized. I’m on my way home from Vermont College of Fine Arts after 8 days of a residency full of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 12, 2009 | accumulation, craft of writing, details, place |
I discovered Snoop by Sam Gosling in a note by @piscivorous on Facebook. Its subtitle is What Your Stuff Says About You. I was interested in this book not only for what it could tell me about how to portray fictional characters but also for what it could tell me about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 18, 2009 | accumulation, reading |
The books that sit on Lynn Neary’s “shelf of constant reproach” are “the books I know I should have read…but haven’t.” She borrowed this term from Luis Clemons, who chooses which authors to interview for NPR’s Tell Me...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 13, 2009 | accumulation, craft of writing |
Last week, before I went out of town, I was looking for my new book, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. I looked on my ToBeRead shelf–not there. I looked behind me on this long built-in shelf that theoretically holds the things I’m working on–not...
