Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 2
December 18, 2013
Link Working!
For reasons only the cyberspace gods know, the link to my new blog, TheIntimidatedCook.com is now working: www.TheIntimidatedCook.com
December 17, 2013
New Blog! The Intimidated Cook: The Non-Foodies Guide to Cooking for Friends
Dear WritingTime Readers, My new blog is launched this week. Here's the link: www.TheIntimidatedCook.com If you know me you might be thinking that cooking is a hilarious subject for me to write about since I am not a cook, know...
December 13, 2013
Joy! Brave Students Dancing
I've been meaning to post these photos ever since my UCLA Writers' Program class ended last month. Everybody broke out dancing at the last class to Sara Bareilles's "Brave": "Don't run, stop holding your tongue/Maybe there's a way out of...
December 8, 2013
How to Write an Essay
Here's the thing about writing an essay, or a novel or a memoir – each time you do it you learn how to do it all over again. At least I have to. I'm writing an essay now that's due...
December 6, 2013
Cleaning up the Mess
The mess in my office always feels like a metaphor. As I write my office gets more chaotic, then when I finish a draft I organize the mess and start all over again. Actually I'm still in the middle of...
November 27, 2013
Holiday Reading
I've just started reading Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. It got rave reviews when it came out last month but the plot sounded so complicated that I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. I got it anyway and I'm now...
November 6, 2013
Love Letter to Students
I'm teaching an advanced Non-fiction class this quarter at UCLA Extension and I'd like to tell my students how much I love them. (Actually I tell them this all the time, but I want to do it in public today.)...
October 19, 2013
Writing With Strangers
I taught a writing workshop for UCLArts&Healing today and a wonderful group of people showed up. They wrote poems and stories from prompts such as "I remember..." and a list of stuff from their current life that might be turned...
October 16, 2013
Finding Poems
Poems can come out of the blue. Literally. Early this morning I found a poem on the beach. I was just walking along with Nelson like I do every morning and two women passed who were speaking Italian. I thought...
October 2, 2013
Book Passage Workshop Cancelled
If any of you were intending to come to the Book Passage workshop this weekend, I apologize for the cancellation. The workshop will be rescheduled for early in 2014.
