by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 30, 2010 | accumulation, journeys, mfa, time |
I dropped the last packet of the six-month semester into the FedEx box yesterday afternoon. After I fill out some end-of-the-semester forms, I will have completed the first year of my two-year program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. To celebrate I went to run in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 12, 2010 | craft of writing, mfa |
Words Overflown by Stars, edited by David Jauss, is the craft book from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program. I started it about this time last year and just finished it a few weeks ago. 432 pages of craft essays–a text book with the feel of a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 8, 2010 | Columbus GA, essays, life, mfa, place |
I wrote a guest post for Doug Glover’s blog, Numéro Cinq, in the series he’s doing on what it’s like to live in various places. Here’s the first paragraph: In Columbus, Georgia, the seasons change, but they take their sweet time about it. First...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 26, 2010 | accumulation, life, mfa, the day |
Yesterday started off rainy and ended with beautiful fall blue skies. And yesterday I started the day with two packets to turn in for this semester and ended the day with only one remaining. Today it’s very coppery and auburn outside. No rain but no blue...
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 |
