Memoir Writing

“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 deliberate construction.” — William Zinsser No matter what age we have achieved, our lives are […]

unpsychology magazine issue 10

Submissions Call… unpsychology #10: Edges

“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.“ On Saturday, I attended a creative workshop with the magazine’s editors and about 20 individuals from around the world who are interested in submitting a piece of writing, artwork, or […]

2nd Annual Non-Fiction Comic Fest Burlington, Vermont

Sequential Art at the 2nd Annual Non-Fiction Comic Fest

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 and autobiographical work. On Sunday, I dropped in on Zoom for a SAW workshop (The […]

When AI Knocks at your Door Green Mountain Writers

When AI Comes a-Knockin’

…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 in our ability to recognize others’ fear. And as “The Fear Factor” argues, by studying […]

Carl Jung on Tarot

Tarot, a Cure for Writer’s Block?

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 conscious aims, and to enjoy that self-constructed defeat.” He blamed the subconscious, as any student […]