Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 24
November 18, 2010
Balancing Acts
Last month I was part of a literary panel at a the Women Leaders Forum in Palm Springs and we were asked what the most challenging part of writing was for each of us. Most of us agreed that writing...
November 12, 2010
Congratulations to R.!
Three of my husband's photographs (above and below) have been chosen for a juried show (Best of Nature Photography) opening tomorrow at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Tomorrow is the opening reception - and his entourage of family and...
November 10, 2010
FInally Figuring out Facebook
After two years of being snarky about Facebook, calling it Junior High etc., I finally "got" it, I finally understand now what Facebook is all about. I thought you had to know your "friends" - and I was always amazed...
November 8, 2010
The Writers Club
The third Arrowhead Writers Retreat was held this past weekend and such good writing -personal essays, chapters of memoirs-in-progress, poems and also fiction - amazing stories that made you cry or laugh so hard your ribs hurt. One of the...
November 3, 2010
Pride and Prejudice
A reader of this blog wrote and asked if I'd heard the NPR interview with Prof. Kathryn Sutherland by Mary Louise Kelly on 10/27/10 about Jane Austin and her editor. I had, and oddly I had just written a piece...
October 30, 2010
Patience
No one has to be patient anymore. We can publish books from our computers. We can get messages anywhere, anytime. We can have whole libraries of books instantly zapped to whatever our latest gadget is, or a complete film festival...
October 28, 2010
Writing Retreat Space Available
Someone needs to cancel for the Arrowhead Writers Retreat November 5-7 so one place has opened up. The cost is $650 for the weekend and this includes workshops, one on ones, all meals and lodging in the beautiful UCLA Conference...
October 27, 2010
The Voice That Chirps and Chips
We're so good with the negative voices: You idiot, what kind of an idea is that? Who do you think you are to be writing a book? Why are you sitting there in your bedroom slippers writing about your boring...
