I once heard Spike Lee talk to a room full of screenwriters about how to begin building a story. He didn’t start with structure or theme. He started with something much simpler. “Go to Staples,” he said, “or any office…
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…
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…
“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).…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…