Comments on: the empty armchair https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/ Catching Days Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: it’s been another year | catching days https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-973 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:06:36 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-973 […] September 2009: A Day in the Life of Dani Shapiro-those were the days-wage peace-the splitting sound-from creede-finished-infinite autumn-the germ of everything-the library, and step on it-yellow letters from a shoebox on a rainy pm-the empty armchair […]

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-972 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:12:00 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-972 Jennifer-Thanks!

Mireille-Thank you for taking the time to list all the things you liked about the story. I appreciate it.

Sarah-Thank you for reading and checking on the autobiographical aspect of the story. Happy to say it was all imagined.

Tess-So nice to hear from you. I’m glad you liked the story and thanks for posting the link. I hope you’ll be back.

And thanks for all the nice emails about the story as well!

]]> By: Tess Dickenson https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-971 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:39:15 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-971 Love this story! Posted a link to it at http://www.shortfictionflash.com Wonderfully done.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-970 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:59:18 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-970 In reply to LisaG.

Thanks, Lisa. This line bubbled up from somewhere during a revision. I remember being uncomfortable with it at first.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-969 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:56:02 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-969 In reply to Darrelyn Saloom.

Thank you, Darrelyn. I’m so glad the Matisse sections worked for you. I wrote the novel first and then the story, and during the process I fell in love with Matisse–his painting and his writing. Both seemed to have so much to say about life.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-968 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:48:49 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-968 In reply to Kimberly Davis.

Thanks, Kim

]]> By: Sarah Laurence https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-967 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:17:18 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-967 Congratulations on the publication! That opening paragraph was wonderful. I hope the story was imagined and not based on painful experience.

]]> By: Mireille Noël https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-966 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:22:34 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-966 What a great novel (nouvelle). You certainly have the talent to bring us into the story. Your protagonist have a goal and she had achieved it! Knowing she is still vulnérable at the moment of the story, we following her evolution to the turning point:Be herself.

No matter what should happen (empty), she decided to live her life. A portrait that nobody else should do except her.

I have enjoy the way you uses metaphores to illustrate the choices of both characters. The empty
armchair, the omniprésence of Matisse as a confident in is choice are simply beautiful.

Brievety of the novel, dialogues, intensity, passion, everything is marvelous.

The colors of your writing are fabulous!

Thanks you!

]]> By: jenniferneri https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-965 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:23:25 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-965 wow – what a story, Cynthia. You brought right in. Forgot all about the yelling kids downstairs waiting for their snack. thanks.

]]> By: LisaG https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/09/the-empty-armchair/#comment-964 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:03:34 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=3941#comment-964 Love this line:
Boil a life down to its essence. Freeze it, and see what rises.

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