by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 28, 2014 | about the current writer, essays, How We Spend Our Days, journeys, life |
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 | Jan 8, 2014 | reading |
So I read Richard III. And I listened to Richard III. And although the 1995 movie starring Annette Bening was not available for rent, I did watch the 1955 movie directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. The movie was torturous even though I was on the treadmill. I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 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 Jane Smiley. When I get up in the morning, the first...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 28, 2013 | accumulation, catching moments, continuous life, journeys, life, obsession, place, provincetown |
My end-of-the-year tally for 2013 is not how many books I read but how many days I spent in Provincetown. Every month, I was there. Usually for a week–one month for more, two months for less. Writing, reading, walking, cycling, eating, drinking,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 20, 2013 | about the current writer, novels |
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 | Dec 10, 2013 | accumulation, craft of writing |
With my previous novel, I had no idea what the story was, but with the novel I’m currently writing, the story came fast, right after the title. HOW to tell the story, however, was to be the trick this time. Her point of view, his, her friend’s, his...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 1, 2013 | 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 Matthew Limpede. I wake up at 11 a.m. It’s not a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 18, 2013 | about the current writer, 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 | Nov 14, 2013 | catching moments |
One more thing about Henry VI, Part Three… Act 2, scene 5 is a miniature masterpiece–its first 124 lines anyway. It begins with King Henry going to sit by himself on a hill, after his wife has sent him away from the battle. There he thinks over his unhappy...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 8, 2013 | craft of writing, Pam Houston, place, Writing by Writers |
Five amazing days–October 16-20–at the Marconi Center in Tomales Bay for Writing By Writers’ first conference with Dorothy Allison, Ron Carlson, Pam Houston, Fenton Johnson (Fenton the Human), Antonya Nelson, and Carl Phillips. Morning workshops....
