Catching Days
is a blog about writing, reading, and life--how they meld, clash, and astonish. It's a net for catching days.My fiction on the web…
"The Empty Armchair" in Contrary Magazine
"The Splitting Sound" in Clapboard House
"Watching" in Six Sentences
"Frosting" in Contrary Magazine
"Into the Woods" in Storyglossia
My essays on the web…
My reviews on the web…
Kim Wright's Love in Mid Air in Contrary Magazine
Francesca Kay's An Equal Stillness in Contrary Magazine
Mari Strachan's The Earth Hums in B Flat in Contrary Magazine
Rachel Cusk: The Slow Construction of a Writing Life in Blogcritics
Elizabeth Diamond's An Accidental Light in Contrary MagazineCatching Days is one of Powell’s Books “Lit Blogs We Love” !
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- russian dolls
- sixty potential first sentences
- taking a story apart
- that sinking feeling
- the days cottages
- the street ran on
- the writer's notebook
- word journey
- wordable awareness
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Daily Archives: September 4, 2008
catching days
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard writes of schedules as nets for “catching days.” She says, “I have been looking into schedules.” Then she describes the schedule of a Danish aristocrat living a hundred years ago, who started his day by … Continue reading
Posted in Annie Dillard, Rachel Cusk, awards and prizes, first novels, schedules, writing
Tagged Saving Agnes, The Writing Life
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“It’s hard to tell somebody what you mean to say. And that’s an idea that I’m obsessed with. It’s why I write. It’s why everybody writes.”
--Jonathan Safran Foer
