Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Year: 2009
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Moon Poems
This whole making the moon explode thing is getting to me. Okay, I know it’s not the whole moon, just a tiny portion on the dark side by the craters. And I know it’s not supposed to affect us, our fields or tides or anything, in any way. It’s just to see if there’s water. Still,…
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The Anthologist
When I read a review of Nicholson Baker‘s latest novel, I knew it was my kind of book. The main character is a poet. With writer’s block. That was enough to get me to buy the book, and wow did I have fun reading it. I can’t remember how long it’s been since I laughed so much…
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Bright Star Beckons
Saw Bright Star with Lisa and later fell asleep reading Keats’ poems again. Naturally, next morning I wrote another poem. And today, another. Am also in the midst of revising the second in my trio of romantic comedies. When I looked in my closet for the rom com draft, I found a notebook full of old poems and stories.…
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This Writer’s Road
One of the pleasures of growing older as a writer is finally being able to make sense of why I do it at all. Finally I see the pattern and the meaning, although the pattern resembles one of those roundabouts they keep designing for intersections and the meaning is less shiny than I’d imagined. I once…
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Also Available In…
Karen got me excited about the Kindle, so I decided to try making it an option for Your Words, Your Story. Checked Amazon this morning and there it is. The process took less than an hour and was easy even for me, a total reptile brain when it comes to computers. There was about a week’s wait, and then, snap,…