All writers strive for those magical moments when the words seems to flow effortlessly from mind to page, when one loses track of time and enters a trance-like state of creative focus. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi coined the term “flow state”…
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis Time for a breath of fresh air… The Burlington Writers Workshop Meetup Group, originally established by Peter Bielo, has been idle since 2022. After more than…
Master storyteller Dennis McSorley is creating a new stage genre in resurrecting his younger days as The Kid from Queens. It’s not standup, and it’s not merely a monologue. It’s not scripted since it includes improvisation and freeform narrative. No show…
Substack is a subscription newsletter service popular among independent journalists and writers. Launched in 2017, this free, email newsletter publishing platform may earn money for authors by helping them turn their subscribers into paying customers. Integrating Stripe, and a website…
“Memoir isn’t the summary of a life; it’s a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It’s not; it’s a…
The Green Mountain Writers Group celebrated National Poetry Month on April 20, 2024. We enjoyed the opportunity to meet in person at Underhill Center’s historic District No. 5 Schoolhouse on a special day dedicated to poets and fans of poetry At 10 AM, we…
“unpsychology magazine publishes writing, art, video and music related to the broad theme of how humans see and experience the world in complex and troubled times.“ I attended a creative workshop with the magazine’s editors and about 20 individuals from around…
On Saturday, November 18, 2023, I attended the Second Annual Non-Fiction Comics Fest at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont. The 3-day event featured panel discussions, workshops, and a main floor exhibit space filled with cartoonists displaying their non-fiction…
…it’s “Katy Bar the Door!” The Fear Factor is more than an old Joe Rogan series, it’s also a book by Abigail Marsh who studied the brains of both psychopathic children and extreme altruists and found that the answer lies…
The term writer’s block was first coined in New York City in 1947 by Edmund Bergler, a well-known disciple of Sigmund Freud. Bergler, an Austrian psychiatrist called writer’s block a form of “psychic masochism, the unconscious wish to defeat one’s…