The Right to Create With Fire
I have a bonsai growing in my bedroom. It is eleven inches tall, and it may be decades old. I don’t know exactly how old. What I do know is that it does not grow on its own terms. Not…
Stephen Kastner
Stephen Kastner writes essays, science fiction, memoir, poetry, and is currently working on a screenplay and novel about his Quaker ancestor Thomas Maule, who was arrested for defending the wise women accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. He leads the Green Mountain Writers Group in Vermont and creates digital media professionally as DesignWise Studios.
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Robert Frost: Tragedy, Craft, and the Quiet Fire Beneath the Snow
A Green Mountain Writers feature for those who missed our recent Monday Morning Poetry Session… Robert Frost is often introduced as Vermont’s beloved poet laureate, a gentle observer of woods, stone walls, and snowy evenings. We recite his lines in…
GMWG’s Guide to Writing & Requesting Book Reviews
“As a reviewer, you bring together the two strands of accurate, analytical reading and strong, personal response when you indicate what the book is about and what it might mean to a reader (by explaining what it meant to you).…
Finding Felicity in the Fields of Vermont
Author Robert Merrick Fuller launches memoir with Green Mountain Writers Group on Zoom… In a world that often rushes past life’s quiet moments, Robert Merrick Fuller has chosen to slow down, look back, and offer something rare: a memoir not…
TikTok for Authors… go where your audience has gone
#BookTok is a hashtag used by authors and digital content creators who feature book recommendations, reviews and memes. Professor Sut Jhally, founder of the Media Education Foundation once said, “Advertisers (authors) have to go to where the audience is if…
Freewriting and Low Stakes Writing
Peter Elbow is a professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst… where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and papers. He…
Achieving Flow State for Optimal Writing
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”…
Now, Two Flavors of Green Mountain Writers Group
“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…
Substack, a Self-Publishing Alternative
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…
Biweekly Memoir Writing Workshop
“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…