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From Corporate Sales to Creative Writing One of the pleasures of running a writing community is watching writers develop their craft over time. We see people arrive with an idea, a journal, a few poems, or the beginnings of a manuscript, and then gradually grow into authors. That has been the case with Ishita Nigam, […]

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 supply store, and buy a stack of three-by-five index cards.” Keep them handy. Every time […]

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 entirely. I water it. I turn it toward the light. I prune it. I decide […]

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 school, quote him on calendars, and imagine him walking country lanes with a notebook 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). In other words, reviewers answer not only the WHAT but the SO WHAT question about […]