by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 13, 2014 | craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, memoir, the day |
Still Writing is Dani Shapiro’s most recent book, a book she described at AWP as a “love letter to her tribe,” a book I might have bought just for its cover, a book that’s part inspiration, part memoir, part meditation, part craft. But to me,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 17, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, How We Spend Our Days, memoir, obsession |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 17, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, details, How We Spend Our Days, novels, stories, truth |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 9, 2014 | craft of writing, details, my writing, Pam Houston |
All my physical therapist, who is from the Netherlands, has to do is lay his hands on my neck or back and I’m all better. He’s a wonderful painter, as well as a reader, and so we spend the rest of my thirty minutes talking about his paintings and my...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 10, 2013 | accumulation, craft of writing |
With my previous novel, I had no idea what the story was, but with the novel I’m currently writing, the story came fast, right after the title. HOW to tell the story, however, was to be the trick this time. Her point of view, his, her friend’s, his...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 8, 2013 | craft of writing, Pam Houston, place, Writing by Writers |
Five amazing days–October 16-20–at the Marconi Center in Tomales Bay for Writing By Writers’ first conference with Dorothy Allison, Ron Carlson, Pam Houston, Fenton Johnson (Fenton the Human), Antonya Nelson, and Carl Phillips. Morning workshops....
