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 Abercrombie's students who have gone from paralyzed to published.
Writing can be risky and make you feel vulnerable. A Year of Writing Dangerously is a book of 365 short pieces to sustain a writer – beginner or veteran – through a year of writing fiction, memoir, autobiography, or personal essays. Three hundred and sixty-five days of inspiration, quotes, and anecdotes about other writers, along with weekly writing prompts.
Barbara Abercrombie has published novels, children's picture books - including the award-winning Charlie Anderson - and works of nonfiction. Her personal essays have appeared in national publications as well as in many anthologies. She received the Outstanding Instructor Award and the Distinguished Instructor Award at UCLA Extension, where she teaches creative writing in the Writers' Program. She also conducts private writing retreats and writes a weekly blog at www.WritingTime.typepad.com. She lives with her husband, Robert V. Adams, and their rescue dog, Nelson, in Santa Monica, California. "If you are a writer - and go on, be brave, say, 'I am a writer' - then this is the book you will turn to every morning, noon, or night when you sit down to write."
