"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
In his Editor's Note, Anthony ILacqua says that a recent call-to-jury-duty experience made him want to "campaign the world - everyone needs to read. And what a better place this world can be if everyone did." Umbrella Factory is his effort, combined with fellow "workers" Oren Silverman, Mark Dragotta, and Jana Bloomquist at jumping into this very campaign. And, they are joined in good company
Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer's block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.