by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 25, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, novels, place, stories |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, 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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 21, 2014 | my writing, obsession, stories |
The summer issue of Contrary Magazine is out, and I’m excited to have a story in there, “Hidden Tracks”–the strangest story I’ve ever written actually–right beside “Blue Moon,” a wonderful story by my friend Jodi Paloni....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 17, 2014 | craft of writing, details, first novels, marriage, reading, reviews, truth |
If you’re looking for a good book–a sure thing, a book you can sink down into and a world you can get lost in–you’re in luck. Robin Black’s debut novel, Life Drawing, was published on Tuesday. The story of a marriage between a painter and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 1, 2014 | 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 Fenton Johnson. Cynthia’s blog charged me with...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 24, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, life, memoir, memory, novels, Pam Houston, stories, truth |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, 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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 18, 2014 | my writing, obsession, provincetown |
Since I started Catching Days back in 2008, it’s been my policy (also my personality) not to do the group blog things. Which made it easy to decline the first time someone asked me to join the my-writing-process blog tour. It was less easy to say no the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 1, 2014 | 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 Roxana Robinson This morning, I woke up around 5:30....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 23, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, How We Spend Our Days, novels, stories |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, 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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 13, 2014 | craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, memoir, the day |
Still Writing is Dani Shapiro’s most recent book, a book she described at AWP as a “love letter to her tribe,” a book I might have bought just for its cover, a book that’s part inspiration, part memoir, part meditation, part craft. But to me,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 1, 2014 | 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 Sue William Silverman. Around two a.m. insomnia...
