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Draw/paint/etc. a landscape from your dream.
An update from book club!
Today in Stone Soup Book Club, we discussed Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, a wonderful, whimsical novel about a girl who befriends a squirrel with superpowers! The story is mostly written in prose, and interspersed with illustrated comic sections and poems.
An update from our seventy-fifth writing workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19
In this workshop, the participants learned how to base characters on core temperaments. William explained the ancient Greek concept of four personality types: phlegmatic (calm and anchored; associated with earth), choleric (hot-headed and leaderlike; associated with fire), sanguine (happy an...
An update from our fiftieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19, plus some of the output published below
This week, Conner focused on the art of flash fiction. To begin, he talked about how influential Ernest Hemingway was during the 20th century, which led to a discussion of Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory": the deeper meaning of the story sh...
In June of this year, I learned that New York City's Mayor Adams was planning to cut public school funding, which, considering our already underfunded school system, was an extremely bad decision. My school’s budget was cut by 16%, and there was a threat of losing teachers and our beloved band program.
Write a backstory for a supporting character from a novel you've read.
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 challenged the students to step outside of their comfort zones and incorporate two or more separate genres into a single work of fiction.
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 speaks the truth." -Jean Cocteau
"I pulled a chicken's foot from behind the moon.
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 ins and outs of literary dialogue. The participants were asked to share out especially inspiring scenes of dialogue from their favorite books and identify why this dialogue was employed by the author.