by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 23, 2016 | about the current writer |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 20, 2016 | 1 true thing, journeys |
I’ve been wanting to write to you all for some time now–all of February really and somehow it’s already the 20th. I’ve chosen to let other things take priority–my novel mainly. I just finished a stretch of working on it everyday for six...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 1, 2016 | 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 MARRO. Today begins in the dark. My...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 25, 2016 | about the current writer, craft of writing, first novels, novels, Writing by Writers |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 12, 2016 | 1 true thing |
At times, making it to the end of this practice seemed impossible. At the beginning, I would stare at my screen for hours, getting more and more anxious. In those early days I had to write the post first thing in the morning so that time was not an added pressure....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 11, 2016 | 1 true thing, poetry, provincetown |
Throughout the year, I’ve resisted thinking about the next day’s post so I wouldn’t scare stuff away. It’s what I have to do when I get really close to something writing fiction–under no circumstance do you think; stop thinking and just...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 10, 2016 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
It always feels like such a miracle when I’m on a plane for the first time after the holidays–to know that I’ve actually managed to emerge whole and intact from all that fun, but concentrated, togetherness. No matter how exhausted I am, it’s...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 9, 2016 | 1 true thing |
As part of bringing this year to a close, I wanted to read all the true things, one after another. To make it easier, I printed them. 15 pages worth. These truths are of all different weights and measures. I began to visualize a chart with all the truths running down...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 8, 2016 | 1 true thing |
I’ve been looking over the posts from the last year, and although my intention was to use a title for a post only once, it appears that I accidentally reused at least the word comfortable. Which was the subject of both #56 about life and #242 about clothes. I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 7, 2016 | 1 true thing, memoir, memory |
During the past year, whenever I would say to Cal that I had no idea what to write about, he would always say, “You can write about how wonderful I am.” Which of course isn’t a true thing about me. Nor is it a true thing about him. Okay, okay. Truth....
