by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 19, 2010 | accumulation, catching moments, journeys, life, the day, time |
It’s been another year and I missed it–completely never even thought about it until Friday night when I was visiting another blog, reading a post about how that week was that blog’s two-year anniversary–still not thinking about it–and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 16, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, life, mfa, the day |
So Thursday morning was luxuriously wide open and the plan was to write a blog post and read about 50 pages of the novel I’m working on. I read the first paragraph of the novel about ten times and then put the papers down. Okay, blog post. Nothing. I answered a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 14, 2010 | life, mfa, the day, truth |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 28, 2010 | catching moments, life, novels, place, reading, the day, time |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 26, 2010 | life |
I don’t hear much about biographies anymore–or autobiographies. Now it’s all about memoir. Not the whole life but a slant on it. Still, biographies are being written. A Pulitzer Prize is given each year for a biography. In 2010, the prize went to The...
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...
