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 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 | Sep 24, 2009 | details, life, time, truth |
David Foster Wallace in Infinite Jest… On Humor: This book is often laugh-out-loud funny. Hal: “I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.'” (12) Hal: “I’m an O.E.D. man, Doctor.” (29) The Narrator...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 11, 2009 | accumulation, life |
If your life includes reading, writing, and books, then it’s likely filled with piles of books and papers and other things you’ve cut out or printed for ideas and then there are all the little notes for inspiration and the notes of daily reminders and the...
