by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 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 Elizabeth Benedict I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 29, 2009 | place |
One of the things I’ve discovered through writing this blog, more so than with writing fiction, is that there are certain images I’m drawn to: windows, doorways, row houses, clotheslines. Dory Adams on her blog, In This Light, has been writing about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 27, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, time |
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by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 24, 2009 | poetry |
In most books of poetry, I put a little check in the Table of Contents by the poems I really like. In Shaindel Beers’ first collection of poetry, A Brief History of Time, I liked so many poems that I switched to marking the poems I didn’t love with a tiny...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 21, 2009 | place, shapes |
My writing group is meeting in the Napa Valley this weekend to write. Usually we meet to read and critique each other’s work. On our breaks we take the waters or a mud bath or a culinary excursion to Mustard’s, Greystone, or Ad Hoc. I am encouraged by the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 16, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, my writing |
I thought if I wrote about it here either I might figure it out or maybe one of you would. You see, I’m working on my third piece of fiction where he tries to make an appearance. Which he in fact did last night in Columbus! In a 2001 (early, early) draft of my...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 12, 2009 | accumulation, craft of writing, details, place |
I discovered Snoop by Sam Gosling in a note by @piscivorous on Facebook. Its subtitle is What Your Stuff Says About You. I was interested in this book not only for what it could tell me about how to portray fictional characters but also for what it could tell me about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 10, 2009 | catching moments, poetry, shapes, the day |
This leaf, propped up like it is here on its stem and all by itself, was waiting for me when I opened the front door yesterday morning. Do you think it thought I wasn’t noticing? I moved it for a moment over by the pumpkin… Then I brought it inside where I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 8, 2009 | reading |
Some of you may remember that on my first try with the Kindle, when I was reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, it did not go well, and I switched to the physical book itself. My second try, using the Kindle to read Infinite Jest while I was...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 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 Sheri Reynolds: My cat wakes...
