Writer's Block Magazine

An Ode To Baking: How To Give The Finger To Seasonal Depression

February 4, 2019

by Cooking, Elise van der Linde, food, Lifestyle

In my previous article, I am a raccoon: why I love trash television, I mentioned that Gen Z has been called the Burn-Out Generation. And I gotta say, I’m feeling the burn. Since it’s also the dead of winter, my tropical disposition has given up on leaving the house, choosing instead to rot on the…

Oneironautics: Exploring Lucid Dreams

February 1, 2019

by Casper Rudolph

“What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1. REM Sometimes I try…

A Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

January 28, 2019

by Books, Megan Leeuw, Reviews

I found out about An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green from watching his channel ‘The Vlogbrothers’ on YouTube, made up of him and his brother, John Green. Because I have followed their channel for years and have been a fan of his brother’s writing as well, I was well excited to read Hank’s debut…

Has Our Youth Grown Up?

January 24, 2019

by Dorus Asselbergs

Apart from 15-year-olds still being as full of hormones as books are of pages, freshmen being petrified by their newly appearing pubes, and 20-year-olds being just as proud of their weirdly thin, slightly gross beards, the answer to this question might partially be yes, our youth has grown up. Biology won’t change, sadly, but culture…

This Is America

January 21, 2019

by Fannah Palmer, travel

I’m kind of a sucker for the American dream. America is the land of possibilities, of glitter and glamour, of making wishes come true, of starting at the bottom and going all the way up. In America, you can be anything, and everything is beautiful and amazing.