Abercrombie, Barbara

"Barbara Abercrombie, an author and creative writing instructor at UCLA Extension, offers 365 days' worth of guidance for writers seeking to warm up, stretch, and build creative muscle"--Provided by publisher.

An inspirational guide to writing with a collection of three hundred sixty-five anecdotes, lessons, and quotes as well as fifty-two writing prompts.

Thirteen-year-old Kate is kidnapped by her grandmother in an attempt to make her divorced parents consider Kate's welfare instead of their own.

On a visit to his aunt and uncle, Michael is delighted by their two cats but must learn the proper way to make friends with them.

Novelist Sarah Flynn is training for competition in a marathon. She realizes that the psychopathic thief of her manuscript carbon will try to enact the final scene of her novel, murder at the finish line.

When Matthew has nothing for show-and-tell one day, he tells the class that he has a lion living at his house, but when his classmates want to come see it he must decide what to do.

Nine-year-old Sam decides to teach his new puppy to behave, but not before Dodger has scared his sister, pulled down some curtains, and stopped a baseball game.

A cat comes out of the night to steal the hearts of two sisters who look forward to his sleeping on their beds, until one day Charlie doesn't come home and they learn a surprising secret about him.

Contemporary American poems grouped according to the effects they achieve such as making pictures or music, explaining feelings, or telling a story.