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  • Writing Out the Storm

    Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury-be it theirs or that of a loved one-who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries-from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong-Abercrombie ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Year of Writing Dangerously

    365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    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-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombies students who have gone from paralyzed to published. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Courage and Craft

    Writing Your Life into Story

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    Have you always wanted to write about your life but wondered how to get started, how to keep going, and whether it's even worth it in the first place? Under the guidance of veteran author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie, you'll learn how to turn the messy, crazy, sad, and wonderful stuff of your life into prose or poetry that has order, clarity, and meaning. Abercrombie presents the nuts ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Kicking In the Wall

    A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts, and Quotes to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    When Patti Smith was plagued with writer’s block — “scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned poems” — playwright Sam Shepard advised her, “When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” In these pages, Abercrombie shows readers how to do just that. Like a workout with a top trainer, her writing exercises warm up, stretch, and build creative muscle. Quotes from famous writers ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Language of Loss

    Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    When Barbara Abercrombie’s husband died, she found the language of condolence irritating, no matter how well intended. “My husband had not gone to a better place as if he were off on a holiday. He had not passed like clouds overhead, nor was he my late husband as if he’d missed a train. I had not lost him as if I’d been careless, and for sure, none of it was for the best.” She yearned instead for ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Gray Love

    Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60

    by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Daniel E. Hood, Cynthia McVay, Susan Ostrov Weisser, Phyllis Carito, Neil Stein, Jonathan Ned Katz, Laura Broadwell, Stephanie M. Brown0, Elizabeth Locke1, Candida B. Korman2, Amy Rogers3, Margie Kaplan4, Alice F. Freed5, Hedva Lewittes6, Rett Zabriskie7, Irvin Peckham8, William Wiesner9, Natasha Josefowitz0, Phyllis Bogen1, Erica Manfred2, Judith Ugelow Blak3, Linda Wright Moore4, Jean Y. Leung5, Jan Jacobson6, Stephanie Speer7, David Levy8, Sandi Goldie9, Jim Bronson0, Vincent Valenti1, Stacey Parkins Millett2, Eugene Roth3, Isabel Hill4, Doris Friedensohn5, Paul Lauter6, Susan O’Malley7, Barbara Abercrombie8, Susan Bickley9, Sarah Dunn0, Mimi Schwartz1, Bonnie Fails2, Angela Page3, Tierl Thompson4, Idris Walters5, Dustin Beall Smith6 ...
    Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Cherished

    21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost

    Edited by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    Because “grieving for an animal can be a pretty lonely place,” Barbara Abercrombie created this joyful and poignant, funny and smart collection of commiseration. Readers meet the cat who liked to fish tampon tubes out of the trash and then appear “jauntily holding one in his mouth as if smoking a cigarette,” the dog who demanded down pillows, and even a coyote who became part of the family. The ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • A Writer's Book of Days

    A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life

    by Judy Reeves ...
    First published a decade ago A Writer's Book of Days has become the ideal writing coach for thousands of writers. Newly revised with new prompts up-to-date Web resources and more useful information than ever this invaluable guide offers something for everyone looking to put pen to paper a treasure trove of practical suggestions expert advice and powerful inspiration. Judy Reeves meets you wherever ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition

    How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays

    by Jack Heffron ...
    Where do you get your ideas?Its a question that plagues every writer. And once youve got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts. So how do you come up with those ideas, and how do you turn them into writing that will engage your reader?The Writers Idea Book is here to help you find the answers. Utilizing more than 400 prompts and exercises, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Writing Alone and with Others

    by Pat Schneider ...
    For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Thunder and Lightning

    Cracking Open the Writer's Craft

    by Natalie Goldberg ...
    Guidance on how to turn those flashes of inspiration into finished pieces, from the author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind.Any writer may find himself or herself with an abundance of raw material, but it takes patience and care to turn this material into finished stories, essays, poems, novels, and memoirs. Referencing her own experiences both as a writer and as a student of Zen, Natalie ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fiction Writer's Workshop

    by Josip Novakovich ...
    Master the Elements of the Writing WorkshopThe great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independenceof being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-criticalin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD