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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- 12 keys to stronger writing from Annie Dillard via Alexander Chee
- a bent cover
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- feeding the buzzards
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- life is meals
- like a wick
- row houses
- 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 12, 2008
no extra words
If you want to see a writer move seamlessly from one scene to the next without any extra words, take a look at this passage from the “Big Bertha Stories” in Bobbie Ann Mason‘s collection, Midnight Magic: Jeannette wanted to stop for … Continue reading →
Posted in Bobbie Ann Mason, craft of writing, stories, words
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Tagged Midnight Magic
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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
