Kalo Mina! Happy first day of May!! May this month be full of reading in the park, adventuring in foreign lands, and shedding layers, both literally and metaphorically.
Yiasou!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the author with Paul Maher Jr. of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
She's also currently working on a memoir about growing up Greek American.
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
Emily Dickinson made my shy little goth heart happy as a teenager. I used to turn her poems into song lyrics and make up dark melodies on my guitar. Dickinson was a quiet woman who preferred time to herself at home rather than forced small talk with strangers. She dressed all in white, obsessed over death, named her dog after the dog in "Jane Eyre," pressed flowers into books, and hid dozens of poems full of quirky punctuation in a locked chest. đź—ť :::
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👀 A little behind-the-scenes peek at my life. With RingCentral, Zoom, Slack, and Skype, most people get a much different view with the video showing what's behind me. This is how I spend about 2/3 of my day. The creative life isn't always glamorous. It can get a bit messy. But I love it nonetheless. 📸 Tag me in your writing nook photos so I can see your creative space! :::
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I'm still basking in the afterglow of my creative retreat over Memorial Day weekend! I felt more focused and more productive at my day job because I took that time to nourish my creative soul. I'm still managing to squeeze in a little more inspiration. This morning I took Donald Miller's webinar "5 Keys to a Fulfilling Life Plan," and tonight I'm taking a virtual yoga class. I want more, though! Send me your favorites documentaries about artists and writers, the lit mag you think everyone should read, the weird thing you do to get your creative juices flowing, the title of the book that made you want to become a writer, the virtual classes you're investing in right now.
As part of our creative retreat this weekend, I explored the culinary arts by trying out some new recipes::: homemade mushroom pizza, the spiciest ever Buddha bowl, spinach-artichoke dip, Dalgona coffee made with oat milk, several varieties of chocolate chip cookies, and cheese enchiladas a la Jenny. I know a lot of people find cooking therapeutic and that there's a lot of pandemic baking going on these days. I don't mind cooking, but if there's one thing this creative venture taught me it's that I do not find cooking relaxing. It's exhausting. Still, I am pretty proud of myself, as it all came out delicious! I spent the rest of the day reading on the couch. It felt refreshing and inspiring to consume art rather than create it, and I'm now feeling invigorated from this mini retreat and ready to write. I think going forward, I want to devote one night a week to some sort of creative play. The poetry cut-ups, "The Creative Brain" documentary, the culinary experimentation, and the glorious gardens BBC show I watched each touched different parts of my brain, giving me new ideas and refreshing my creative soul.
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I am thankful for the men and women who lost their lives serving to protect the United States, and I am thankful for their families and those who served with them.
On day #2 of my creative retreat, I used William S. Burroughs' Cut-up Method to place some playful restraints on my writing. I cut up old People magazines and resurrected them into poems. :::
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