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Writing Workshop #28: Word Choice

Post Published November 18, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twenty-eighth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 14, plus some of the output published below This week we focused on word choice as a way for wr...
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Writing Workshop #27: Revising, Rewriting, & Expanding

Post Published November 14, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twenty-seventh Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 7, plus some of the output published below This week we discussed various techniques for revis...
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Weekly Creativity #125 | Flash Contest: Write a Story with Traditional Opening and Closing Lines

Post Published November 2, 2020 by Jane Levi

Write a short story that begins with “Once upon a time, in a land far away...” and ends with “...and they all lived happily ever after.” This prompt is our November Flash Contest.
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Writing Workshop #26: Horror

Post Published October 28, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twenty-sixth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 24, plus some of the output published below This week our founder William Rubel and Stone Soup co...
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Writing Workshop #25: Nature Writing

Post Published October 21, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twenty-fifth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 17, plus some of the output published below This week's class focused on writing about nature, th...
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Flash Contest #24, October 2020: poems that can be read in both directions – our winners and their work

Post Published October 17, 2020 by Jane Levi

Flash Contest #24: Write a Poem That Can Be Read Up or Down. Our October Flash Contest was based on our weekly creativity prompt #121, another great prompt from Stone Soup intern Anya Geist.
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Weekly Creativity #122: Write about the Concept of Heaviness

Post Published October 12, 2020 by Jane Levi

Spend 15 minutes thinking about HEAVINESS, and write down every word you associate with it–different nouns, verbs and adjectives; colors, sounds, weather, moods, places, people–as many as you can.
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Weekly Creativity #119: Draw a Bicycle from Memory

Post Published September 21, 2020 by Jane Levi

Make a detailed drawing of a bicycle–from memory.
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Writing Workshop #21: Metaphor

Post Published September 18, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twenty-first Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 12, plus some of the output published below We were so happy to be back this week for the first...
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Weekly Creativity #117 | Flash Contest: Write flash fiction from the perspective of an object

Post Published September 7, 2020 by Jane Levi

Create a piece of flash fiction written from the perspective of the first object you saw when you woke up this morning. Your narrative should be no longer than 250 words.
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Daily Creativity #107: Write a Dialogue Between Three Friends

Post Published August 18, 2020 by Jane Levi

Write a dialogue between three friends going on a picnic.
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Weekly Writing Workshop #20: Character Sketches Part II

Post Published August 17, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our twentienth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Friday August 14, plus some of the output published below This week, the last in our first series of Writing ...
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Daily Creativity #99: Write Titles for Pieces You Haven’t Yet Written

Post Published August 6, 2020 by Jane Levi

Write a series of titles for stories or poems you have not yet written.
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Daily Creativity #97: Rewrite a Scene from a Novel as a Ballad

Post Published August 4, 2020 by Jane Levi

Rewrite an exciting episode from a favorite novel as a Ballad at least 30 lines long.
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Daily Creativity #95: Write a Summer Sonnet

Post Published July 31, 2020 by Jane Levi

It’s the last day of July! Write a sonnet (a 14-line poem) in celebration of Summer. For some fun hints about the form of a “sonnet”, read this one by Billy Collins.
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Daily Creativity #93: Write a Bad Poem

Post Published July 29, 2020 by Jane Levi

What do you think are the worst poems ever written? They could be by other poets, adults or children, or your own. Study them, then write a bad poem.
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Weekly Writing Workshop #17, Friday July 24: Writing About Music

Post Published July 29, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our seventeenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contribu...
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Daily Creativity #92: Write about a World Where Everything’s Changed Except You

Post Published July 28, 2020 by Jane Levi

One morning, you wake up, and the only thing in the world that is the same is you. What has changed, and how? Write a one-page story about happens that day.
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Daily Creativity #91 | Flash Contest: Use a Classic Opening Line as a Starting Point

Post Published July 27, 2020 by Jane Levi

Choose one of these opening lines from classic novels, and use it as the starting point for your own short story. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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One Week in Novel Coronavirus Time, a journal from Beijing by Sophia Zhang, 12

Post Published July 24, 2020 by Jane Levi

One Week in Novel Coronavirus Time Sophia Zhang, 12 Day 1 Today I have class, online, and we prepare for the final exam, and then we will have holiday.
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