by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 22, 2015 | 1 true thing, my writing |
I don’t often reread my posts, but sometimes if nothing surfaces after I sit for a few minutes, I go back and read the post from the day before to see if anything flows from that. A phrase in yesterday’s post, which I just reread, stuck out to me. It...
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 | 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 | Apr 9, 2014 | accumulation, continuous life, essays, journeys, life, memoir, memory, my writing, provincetown, time |
Those of you who know me in real life know I have issues with aging—as in I couldn’t possibly be this old; this is my mother’s age. Resisting the truth is not making me any more comfortable in my crinkling skin. So, time to try something new—acknowledging, embracing....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 9, 2014 | craft of writing, details, my writing, Pam Houston |
All my physical therapist, who is from the Netherlands, has to do is lay his hands on my neck or back and I’m all better. He’s a wonderful painter, as well as a reader, and so we spend the rest of my thirty minutes talking about his paintings and my...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 10, 2013 | first novels, my writing, stories |
Contrary celebrates 10 Years! And my story, “The Empty Armchair,” (the first story I ever wrote, based on my first novel), made their Top Ten in Fiction from their first decade of publications! Here’s the link for new readers: The Empty Armchair....
