by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 24, 2010 | craft of writing, essays, mfa, stories |
Last Saturday I spent the day with Chekhov. I don’t know how many of you notice what I’m reading on the sidebar, but it seemed to me that I’d been reading this small old-fashioned-looking book–A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories–for...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 11, 2010 | craft of writing, Pam Houston |
Well, it’s Saturday, the last day the ten of us will be together at Pam Houston’s ranch in Creede, Colorado. Lots of reading and little extra time. Our next meeting will be seven days instead of six. I’m up early to finish reading manuscripts. Two...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 14, 2010 | continuous life, craft of writing, mfa, stories |
Black Maps, a collection of stories by David Jauss, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 1995 (Lorrie Moore/judge). These nine stories–with only one in present tense and the rest in past, and four in third person and five in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 11, 2010 | craft of writing, mfa |
Alone With All That Could Happen is a collection of 7 craft essays by writer David Jauss. I had read some of them when they were first published in AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, but it was time to read them again. I should probably schedule time to reread...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 22, 2010 | craft of writing |
I wanted another cup of tea, but I kept hearing Ron Carlson’s voice: The writer is the person who stays in the room. So I kept staying and kept writing. Out of the corner of my eye, out the window to my right, I could see what I assumed was lots of squirrel...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 30, 2010 | craft of writing, mfa |
It’s difficult to believe it’s been six months, but here I am again and this time, no snow on the ground. Green grass, blue skies, and flowers blooming. 60 degrees right now with a projected high of 66. I arrived Monday afternoon and we started right in...
