This book is for anyone who has always wanted to write about their life, but wondered how to get started, how to keep going, and whether it’s even worth it. Veteran author and teacher Barbara A
Musician and memoirist Patti Smith says, ?I would go as far as I could and hit a wall,” until playwright and actor Sam Shepard advised: ?When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” Abercrombie’s playful,
Drawing on her own experiences as a breast cancer survivor, the author explains how to use writing as a therapeutic way to deal with serious illness or injury, explaining how writing helped her and ot
In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration ? nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-
What do our beloved pets teach us and how do we move beyond loss to embrace and celebrate their memory? In Cherished: 21 Writers Celebrate Animals They’ve Loved and Lost, writers put into words
Charlie, a fuzzy gray cat, walked out of the woods one evening and into Elizabeth's and Sarah's hearts. Now he sleeps on their beds, lets them dress him up in doll clothes, and laps up warm milk on ch
Elizabeth and Sarah and their mother have a cat named Charlie, a stray they have taken in. At night, Charlie curls up on Elizabeth's bed to sleep. But every morning, after lapping up the milk in his b
When Matthew tells his class that he has a pet lion, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. The more he talks, the bigger his story grows. How can Matthew use his wonderful imagination to make
