This week in class we’re working on the personal essay – a short, marketable piece on an experience you’ve had recently that helped you figure out something or to find humor in a frustrating situation or maybe just made you aware of the fact that you don’t have total control over what’s driving you crazy. …
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New: UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Website!
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 0 Comments
You can check out all the writers who are teaching in the program, find upcoming events and classes. www.uclaextension.edu/writers
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Showing Up
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 5 Comments
September. School starts and life switches gear again. One of my daughters used to start getting antsy in the middle of summer when she was little, and by August she was writing out schedules for the school year – when she’d get up in the morning, when she’d do her homework, when she’d practice the…
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The Final, Final Computer Vent
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 9 Comments
Dear Readers, I returned it. I am about to become a Mac person.
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The Internal Critic of the Writer Appears Wearing Feathers
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 5 Comments
We all (or at least all the writers I know) have this critic, this watcher, sitting on our shoulder whispering in our ear that maybe we should be doing something more useful with our time, or where did we get the idea we could write in the first place, or urging us not to write…
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Artistic License
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 5 Comments
If you love animals and art and live in Los Angeles, please come to Artistic License on May 19th from 4:00 to 7:00. It’s a benefit for homeless and abandoned animals at the Pasadena Humane Society sponsored by the Pasadena Animal League . You can find out more details at: www.pasadenaanimalleague.com Some really wonderful art…
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Your Own Writing Group
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 12 Comments
In a Q & A session last week after my talk in San Diego, someone asked about forming writing groups. I think a writing group is a great idea if everybody in it knows how give generous, nurturing and honest feedback to one another, and is really serious. You want people in your group who…
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Four Things You Need to Become a Writer
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 6 Comments
Stubbornness. To be mule-like in your stubbornness; not absorbing one logical thing your family or friends tell you about the impossibility of becoming a writer (hours wasted, no way to make a living etc). A passion for books and language to the point of addiction.…
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Happy Holidays
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 2 Comments
Wishing you many books this holiday season, both to give and to receive, and many peaceful hours in 2007 for your writing. Writing Time will be back after New Year’s. Blessings and joy to all of you.
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What Lasts
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 3 Comments
I went to the funeral yesterday of a beautiful man who died much too young. During the service his son read an essay about the story of his life. The words were eloquent in their simplicity – what a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend he was, how loyal he was to his Armenian…
