by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 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 Ron Carlson. There was a weekday this July when all...
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 | 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 | Jul 22, 2010 | craft of writing |
I wanted another cup of tea, but I kept hearing Ron Carlson’s voice: The writer is the person who stays in the room. So I kept staying and kept writing. Out of the corner of my eye, out the window to my right, I could see what I assumed was lots of squirrel...
