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Writing Workshop #74: Mixing Genres (Revisited)

Post Published November 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our seventy-fourth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below This week, workshop assistant Liam Hancock challen...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #49: Sound & the Sonnet

Post Published November 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below "A poet is a liar who always spea...
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Writing Workshop #73: Literary Dialogue

Post Published November 12, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our seventy-third Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 5 Today’s workshop called for the writers to pull from their own bookshelves and study the ...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #48: Prose Poetry

Post Published November 12, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 5, plus some of the output published below For this week's workshop, we fo...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #47: Excess (Revisited)

Post Published November 5, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-seventh Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 29th Excess: more than necessary—exaggeration, extravagance, exuberance, a...
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Weekly Creativity #227: Write a Scary Story/Poem

Post Published October 31, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Write a scary story/poem.
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Writing Workshop #72: Pseudowords (Revisited)

Post Published October 29, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our seventy-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 22, plus some of the output published below In this workshop, the participants learned to say t...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #46: The Villanelle

Post Published October 29, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 22, plus some of the output published below This week Emma Hoff, 10, led her t...
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Writing Workshop #71: Stream of Consciousness (Revisited)

Post Published October 22, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our seventy-first Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 15, plus some of the output published below This workshop covered stream of consciousness, a jou...
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Writing Workshop #70: Point of View

Post Published October 15, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our seventieth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 8, plus some of the output published below During today’s workshop, we discussed one of the most ...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #44: Writing Dialogue

Post Published October 15, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-forth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 8, plus some of the output published below This week's workshop, Conner began ...
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Writing Workshop #69: Fast Sketching Characters (Revisited)

Post Published October 7, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our sixty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 1 In this workshop, students created rapid character sketches: short writing pieces that give a se...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #42: The Poetic Line

Post Published October 1, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 24, plus some of the output published below "A poem does not make sense.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #41: Beginnings

Post Published September 24, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 17th, plus some of the output published below To kick off the his workshop o...
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Writing Workshop #68: Sense of Place

Post Published September 24, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our sixty-eighth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 17, plus some of the output published below In this workshop, we covered the idea of ‘sense o...
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Flamethrower, a memoir by Jacob, 11

Post Published August 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Flamethrower Jacob Chan, 11 I was almost 11 in the warm windy fall of the year 2019, when my baseball team, the Bulldogs, were playing in the little league semi-finals.
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Covid, a poem by Melanie, 9

Post Published August 17, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Covid Melanie Delfina, 9 It was hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when it felt like the sky was beginning to rumble. The sky faded dark.
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Out of the Pandemic, poetry in seasons by Paridhi, 13 | Part VI: Spring 2021

Post Published August 15, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Author's Statement I started writing this piece as an optional assignment in my seventh grade English class. It was an end of the year assignment. In this piece, I have tried to describe some vivid m...
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Out of the Pandemic, poetry in seasons by Paridhi, 13 | Part V: Winter 2021

Post Published August 8, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Out of the Pandemic, poetry in seasons by Paridhi, 13 | Part IV: Autumn 2020

Post Published August 2, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

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