by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 20, 2009 | craft of writing, details |
Wanted to share this quote with you from Anne Enright’s The Gathering: “I love this undertaker. He has that thing that young people got, sometime after I grew up. He does not pretend. He does not judge. He talks about the caskets in a...
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 26, 2009 | craft of writing, essays, life, my writing, shapes |
I was planning on doing a post on that need to write but then had the opportunity to write a Guest Writer article on the subject for The View From Here Magazine. It is online today with the print issue coming out November 6th, I believe. Here’s the first...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 21, 2009 | craft of writing, essays |
On Friday, I read the essay “Annie Dillard and the Writing Life,” by novelist Alexander Chee who took a class from Annie Dillard in 1989. He writes, “By the time I was done studying with Annie, I wanted to be her.” Over the weekend I kept...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 15, 2009 | craft of writing, poetry |
Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a book I forgot I had on my shelf–a forgotten book. Every now and then, I will pull a book off the shelf that looks unfamiliar–an old book–and thumb through its pages to see...
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...
