For more photos of the Montana Writers Retreat you can go to http://gallery.mac.com/rd11#100159 Photos are by Rob Daly, Kara Fox, and one by Bob Adams. The Big Hole River runs through Rockpoint Ranch. Photo thanks to Rob Daly.
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Montana Writers Retreat
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 16 Comments
Here’s a photo of members of the Montana Writers Retreat. (Or the Naked Montana Writers as we began to call ourselves but that’s another story.) Stories about riding a horse from Mexico to Canada, looking up an old boyfriend from Junior High, switching jobs, getting through a divorce, an addiction, a near death experience, moving…
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Come to Idyllwild
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 5 Comments
Imagine spending five days at a grown up camp in the mountains where all you have to do is write, get inspired and get feedback on your work, hang out with other writers and artists, and at night listen to poets and jazz.. July 14th-18th I’m teaching a week long workshop on memoir and personal…
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A Commercial Break
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 3 Comments
If you’re new to this blog: I have a book out on writing that’s available at Amazon or your local bookstore can order it. Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life Into Story is just what the title suggests – how to find courage to start writing about your life, and then how to craft what…
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Revisiting the Forest Not the Trees
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 6 Comments
Last year at this time I wrote a post on this blog about choosing twelve students via their writing submissions for my advanced Spring quarter workshop on non-fiction. Another year has twirled around and here I am again reading thirty submissions for the class. And again, I want to feel something as I read, I…
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If You Write Fiction or Screenplays….
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 0 Comments
Check out Billy Mernit’s post on his blog about the Montana Writing Retreat – www.livingromcom.typepad.com He’ll be teaching a workshop at the retreat on "Character and Plot for Fiction and Film" He writes a wonderful description of his own retreat at Rockpoint ranch a few years ago. (FYI: the novel he was working on was…
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Loving Writers
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 2 Comments
I love writers, and I really loved the ones who were on my panel this weekend at UCLA Extension’s ArtsDay LA.The reason is that they’re so honest. As Maria Escandon said on the panel, writers are like subway flashers lurking around in their trench coats, and then suddenly throwing open their coats – exposing all…
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A Week of Writing and Solitude
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 7 Comments
From June 22 to June 27, 2008 Billy Mernit and I will be conducting a writing retreat in Twin Bridges, Montana at Rockpoint Ranch – 2,000 acres of pasture, cows, river, trees and solitude. Billy will be teaching a workshop on “Character and Plot for Fiction and Film”, and I’ll be teaching “Writing Your…
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Upcoming Events, Workshops and Classes
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March 1st Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeeshop, La Canada At 3:30 Saturday afternoon on March 1 I’ll be signing Courage & Craft and talking about writing your life into story – journals, personal essays and memoir. _______________________________________________________________ March 8th UCLA Extension: ArtsDay LA This is a free, four-hour event on the UCLA campus where you…
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Four Days: Seventeen Stories
by Barbara Abercrombie • • 8 Comments
I’ve spent the past four days with seventeen stories – memoir chapters and personal essays written by my students in the UCLA Extension Writers Studio. Starting at nine o’clock last Thursday morning and going all day, every day, until six o’clock Sunday night, seventeen students wrote, read their writing exercises and chapters and essays aloud,…
