by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 13, 2009 | accumulation, craft of writing |
Last week, before I went out of town, I was looking for my new book, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. I looked on my ToBeRead shelf–not there. I looked behind me on this long built-in shelf that theoretically holds the things I’m working on–not...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 9, 2009 | craft of writing, life, place, time |
In Wildlives, Quebecois author Monique Proulx creates a magical world out of the stuff of our world. Memory, silence, flowers, summertime, the lake–everything is alive. “The lake rose and fell and murmured beneath his paddle like a primitive animal mass, then...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 6, 2009 | catching moments, my writing |
For today, I had planned to write a review of the book I finished yesterday, but as I sat down to write, I realized that the piece of fiction I started on Saturday and continued with on Sunday and Monday is the first altogether new piece of fiction I’ve started...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2009 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer Adam Braver: I never thought...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 28, 2009 | my writing, stories |
My story, “The Empty Armchair,” which is loosely based on my first novel, The Painting Story, appears in the fall issue of Contrary Magazine. Here’s the beginning: Being sick has taken away the busy surface of my life. Gone are the errands and the...
