by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 30, 2008 | my writing, stories |
My story, “Frosting,” appears in Contrary’s Winter issue. Here’s a little piece of it: “It was overcast and warm. Also, sticky. And still. Too still. I sniffed and inhaled the smell of rain. That was easy. But there was something...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 6, 2008 | my writing, stories |
My story, “Into the Woods,” appears in Storyglossia’s Issue 32, December 2008. Here’s how it starts: Georgia was putting Tyler’s baseball schedule into her computer when she heard the racing of a car’s engine, followed by the squeal of tires...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 25, 2008 | Pam Houston, stories, truth |
Pam Houston is one of my all-time favorite writers. She is a master at getting it out of her head and onto the page. Take for example this bit of dialogue from her novel, Sight Hound: “You know,” she said, “I’m not going to be one of those...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 20, 2008 | novels, reviews, stories |
In a 1921 New York Times article entitled, “What is a Novel, Anyhow?”, Henry Kitchell Webster, writes “A novel is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a fictitious prose narrative of sufficient length to fill one or more volumes. Well, do you...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 12, 2008 | stories |
My favorite journal is One Story. That’s what it is. One story. At a time. Brilliant. Every three weeks, one story arrives in my mailbox. I always keep a story in my purse. Or my pocket. I’m never without something to read. One Story is the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 12, 2008 | craft of writing, stories |
If you want to see a writer move seamlessly from one scene to the next without any extra words, take a look at this passage from the “Big Bertha Stories” in Bobbie Ann Mason’s collection, Midnight Magic: Jeannette wanted to stop for ice cream. She...
