Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Year: 2009

  • Paradise Fields

    Made this cover from a photo Mike took on his honeymoon in South Africa. Added the title and my name on Picnik in less than five minutes. Was also able to insert the cover right on the first page of the ms. in Word.  What I still can’t figure out is how to get it all here. I…

  • Short Answer

    Question: Where is Paradise Fields? It’s done but I got hung up for a few hours on making a cover. So, the book is done but the cover is not. When Mike has time, he will do it and the book will be here.

  • Paradise Fields

    I had been fretting over a title for my book of poems. The phrase “paradise fields” was in every draft of the moon poem I’ve been struggling with, so I decided to use it. If I couldn’t finish the poem, at least I’d have that phrase. I like how it sounds and also what it means:…

  • Wherefore Art Thou, Moon?

    I meditated. I did yoga. I vacuumed. And still, I could not come up with a decent version of  the second moon poem. So I studied. Got out mythology books and science books. (Did you know that one of the theories is that the moon used to be part of the earth? It possibly broke off and floated…

  • the writing gap

    About how I wrote those poems yesterday. Kind of left out a huge chunk of the process, which I call the yoga gap, but really you don’t have to do yoga to get the gap. You can do anything. Anne Tyler vacuums. Martha Beck rollerblades. Julia Cameron takes walks. Natalie Goldberg meditates. I like to write first thing in…