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 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 | Oct 29, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, shapes, the day |
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 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 | Sep 18, 2009 | catching moments, journeys, Pam Houston, place, poetry |
It’s writing group week. At this time of the year, we’re at Pam Houston’s ranch in Creede, Colorado. There are nine of us here, two who couldn’t make it. Saturday night we arrived to a dinner of salmon, fresh corn on the cob and green beans,...