by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 29, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, shapes, the day |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 26, 2009 | craft of writing, essays, life, my writing, shapes |
I was planning on doing a post on that need to write but then had the opportunity to write a Guest Writer article on the subject for The View From Here Magazine. It is online today with the print issue coming out November 6th, I believe. Here’s the first...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 24, 2009 | catching moments, life, time |
I sit at my desk and write on this cloudy fall Saturday, working on this new story. Outside, the leaves are changing. But what keeps drawing my attention is this eucalyptus bush in the left panes of the window. When I first started this blog in September of 2008, the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 21, 2009 | craft of writing, essays |
On Friday, I read the essay “Annie Dillard and the Writing Life,” by novelist Alexander Chee who took a class from Annie Dillard in 1989. He writes, “By the time I was done studying with Annie, I wanted to be her.” Over the weekend I kept...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 18, 2009 | accumulation, reading |
The books that sit on Lynn Neary’s “shelf of constant reproach” are “the books I know I should have read…but haven’t.” She borrowed this term from Luis Clemons, who chooses which authors to interview for NPR’s Tell Me...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 15, 2009 | craft of writing, poetry |
Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a book I forgot I had on my shelf–a forgotten book. Every now and then, I will pull a book off the shelf that looks unfamiliar–an old book–and thumb through its pages to see...
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...
