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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #28: Automatic Writing

Post Published February 28, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 19th, plus some of the output published below "We are still living under the...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #27: Parables & Paradoxes

Post Published February 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-seventh Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 12, plus some of the output published below This week, Conner chose to focu...
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Writing Workshop #58: Sense of Place

Post Published February 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-eighth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, February 12th, plus some of the output published below William started off the workshop by having a journ...
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Writing Workshop #57: Writing Ideas from Music

Post Published February 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, February 5th, plus some of the output published below Summary & mini-challenges: This week’s Writ...
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The Twits, Reviewed by Petros Korahais, 8

Post Published February 14, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

The Twits by Roald Dahl is a disgusting, creepy, repulsive book full of gross descriptions of stinky people who are just as horrible on the inside as they are on the outside.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #26: Defamiliarization

Post Published February 14, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 5, plus some of the output published below "It is the function of art to rene...
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I Can Change the World with Hope, a poem by Tanvi, 11

Post Published February 11, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

I Can Change the World with Hope Tanvi Padala, 11 I’ve always dreamt of a place Where everyone would treat each other with grace And the planet and countries are managed with care ...
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Writing Workshop #56: Vignettes

Post Published February 5, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-sixth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, January 22nd, plus some of the output published below William introduced the workshop participants to the ...
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How to Live the Life You Dream of Living, a motivational piece by Sabrina, 13

Post Published February 4, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

How to Live the Life You Dream of Living Sabrina Lu, 13 If you would like to live the life you dream of living, please follow the steps below as a guide.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #25: How to Make a Character

Post Published January 29, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-fifth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday January 29, plus some of the output published below This week, Conner enumerated what ...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #24: “And” (Revisited)

Post Published January 28, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday January 22, plus some of the output published below In his first class of the new yea...
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Dear Corona, an open letter from Tatum, 12

Post Published January 20, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Dear Corona Tatum Lovely, 12 Dear Corona, I sit alone in my room, drawing flowers. I don’t know why. Maybe I’m trying to get inspiration for poetry.
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Zooming In, a short story by Maya, 10

Post Published January 11, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

Zooming In Maya Ruben, 10 “Knowing how to care is the first step, but actively going out of your way to do something nice is what really matters,” Ms. Sandra said in a welcoming voice.
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A Birthday Cake in a Pandemic, a personal narrative by Olivia, 10

Post Published January 7, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

A Birthday Cake in a Pandemic Olivia Ren, 10 I was wandering around my house, not doing anything in particular, just walking around. It was March 16, 2020, and my mom, dad, little sister, and I were...
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“Positive,” a personal narrative by Sarayu B., 11

Post Published December 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

Positive Sarayu B, 11 I got the news sometime in January. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my grandmother to get better. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, and the more I thought about...
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A New Christmas Tradition, a poem by Eleanor, 13

Post Published December 3, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

A New Christmas Tradition Eleanor Dagan, 13 Singing, dancing, musical instruments playing, The season of joy, and of red and green Every year at Wes we do a magical Christmas show, the sp...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #22: Eating

Post Published November 20, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 20 In preparation and celebration of Thanksgiving, this week we focused on t...
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The Austen Girls, Reviewed by Georgia, 12

Post Published November 16, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

How much would you give to gain a husband? That is the question surely floating around in many readers’ minds while they embark on the adventure of budding romances, false accusations, and rigidly u...
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Writing Workshop #52: Art and Made-Up Languages

Post Published November 15, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 6th, plus some of the output published below At this writing workshop, William went over the conc...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #21: Plot Vs. Narrative (Revisited)

Post Published November 13, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 13 To continue with students' workshop requests, this week we revisited an ol...
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