by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 21, 2009 | details |
Okay, here’s the thing. I got carried away in my post about the detail hunt. When I started writing it, I just wanted to write about how hard it was to catch details and maybe generate a discussion about where all the good ones were hiding and how other people...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 3, 2009 | craft of writing, journeys |
Do you ever have that thing where for some reason you notice a word and then it’s everywhere? In each of the books you’re reading. Somebody says it on TV. It’s on the first page of The New York Times. The person reading your novel uses it. Well,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 18, 2008 | catching moments, details |
The Oxford American Dictionary defines collaboration as “working jointly, especially in a literary or artistic production.” It defines commitment as “the process or an instance of committing oneself.” And committing as “pledging or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 30, 2008 | shapes |
The Oxford American Dictionary defines this beautiful sounding word as like prose; lacking poetic beauty. unromantic; dull; comonplace. The top three definitions of prose are the ordinary form of the written or spoken language a passage of prose a tedious speech or...
