Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 21
March 21, 2011
The Best Part of Vacation
We are still in Hawaii and I'm thinking that this is probably the best weather on earth, but how does it affect writers? I feel like a large passive vegetable – and getting larger by the minute. I'm not sure...
March 20, 2011
The Marketing Whore at Work
Here's an email that I sent out to a lot of friends this week. If you're on my email list and missed it (some emails bounced back) here it is. And if you're not on my email list and a...
March 18, 2011
On The Road Again: Hawaii
If you love to travel, I'm the companion from hell. Or to be less dramatic about it, simply the most boring person you could possibly take a trip with. R. and I are in Hawaii visiting his daughter and a...
March 16, 2011
Japan
May Mrs. Shibata be safe in this tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Japanese people.
March 11, 2011
Antidote for Age Angst
Maybe you're sitting around right now feeling old. Too old to begin a writing career, or too old to try a second book or a tenth, or too old to start writing essays or poems – you're feeling over the...
March 9, 2011
Why Write
The joy Carolyn See can find in writing is also dazzling."If you can stand the dailiness of it – the continuing marriage of your inner life to all the confusion of the outside world – you can have some fun!...
March 7, 2011
Writers as Sharks
Joy Williams thinks writing is absurd work; writers turn away from real days and nights to come up with other days and nights made out of words. "Oh, it's silly, dangerous work indeed," she writes. She also believes that the...
March 3, 2011
Writing on the Road
You must take your work with you wherever you go. Little notebooks or cards for just leaving the house, bigger notebooks or electronic stuff for longer trips. You write on the road because if you leave your work behind you...
February 28, 2011
Nelson Update
For those of you clamoring for more news and photos of Nelson (ok - my sister-in-law Diane asked the other day) - here's the latest photo of Nelson-Perfect-Dog. More on writing tomorrow.
February 24, 2011
Write and/or Die
When Mary Karr was working on her memoir Lit she threw out five hundred pages of the manuscript leaving just the early chapters. Then a few years later she threw out another five hundred pages. "I was nearing my deadline,"...
