Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Year: 2009

  • As the new year dawns

    One of the things I have struggled with as a writer is my desire to be published. There’s nothing wrong with this dream, except that it can turn ugly when desire unfulfilled turns into suffering. Since I’ve noticed that my burning desire causes suffering, I’ve tried to turn it around. The thing with turning suffering into…

  • Confession

    After a nice holiday break, I crave my regular routine on the one hand, but on the other, I’d rather just read my Kindle;-) It’s hard to get back to revising a first draft when you’ve been away from it for a few days. And for me, it has been particularly difficult this morning. I finished revising Act 1…

  • favorite xmas present

    The kids came home!

  • Singular Pleasure

    Exhausting fun, overflowing love, tense edges. This holiday season I’ve held a three-day-old baby girl and heard devastating news about an elderly relative. I’ve stretched my imagination (and wallet) to find the perfect gift and hidden the effects of too much cheer beneath an extra layer of Mac concealer. I’ve thrown dinner parties, gathered with…

  • mercury retrograde

    Never did contact any agents to pitch The Paris Notebook. For a lot of reasons, I want to pitch the book I’m working on now instead. And anyway that window’s closed for awhile. Agents are people too, and they also have Christmas in less than a week! Not to mention Mercury’s going retrograde so the stars say it’s…