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Writing Workshop #40: Ghosts (Part Two)

by Jane Levi

Published May 15, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #3: Lightness

Published May 12, 2021

Writing Workshop #39: Ghosts (part 1)

by Jane Levi

Published May 6, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #2: Plot Vs. Narrative

Published May 3, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #1: And

Published April 24, 2021

The Winter/Spring Writing Workshop Showcase

Published April 23, 2021

Writing Workshop #38: Sense of Place–Beyond Geography

by Jane Levi

Published April 23, 2021

Writing Workshop #37: Antiheroes

Published March 25, 2021

Writing Workshop #36: Veering

Published March 19, 2021

Writing Workshop #35: Emerging From

by Jane Levi

Published March 15, 2021

An update from our thirty-fifth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 6, plus some of the output published below This week William talked about the different ways of looking at...

Writing Workshop #40: Ghosts (Part Two)

Post Published May 15, 2021 by Jane Levi

An update from our fortieth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 8, plus some of the output published below This week, William completed the journey to the spirit world that we started last week. Inspired by the Victorian-era spirit drawings of Georgian Houghton, the group considered ways of using the idea of the inspiration of spirits in writing, as a way of communica...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #3: Lightness

Post Published May 12, 2021 by

An update from the third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the Workshop held on Saturday May 1, plus some of the output published below Lightness is a "lightening of language whereby meaning is conveyed through a verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied consistency.

Writing Workshop #39: Ghosts (part 1)

Post Published May 6, 2021 by Jane Levi

An update from our thirty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 1, plus some of the output published below In his second class in the spring 2021 series, William took us on a journey to the spirit world, looking at mysterious manifestations in fiction and popular culture, from Caspar the Ghost to the ghost of Hamlet's father.

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #2: Plot Vs. Narrative

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An update from our second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday April 24, plus some of the output published below In the second Writing Workshop of the Spring/Summer Session led by Conner Bassett, we discussed the differences between plot and narrative. Firstly, we considered the fact that while all plots are narratives, not all narratives are plots.

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #1: And

Post Published April 24, 2021 by

An update from our first Writing Workshop with new teacher, Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 17, plus some of the output published below In his first class under the official title of Stone Soup Creative Writing Instructor, Conner Bassett "called an audible," and delivered a scintillating lecture on the use of "and" in literature as well as visual art.

The Winter/Spring Writing Workshop Showcase

Post Published April 23, 2021 by

An appreciation of those who participated in our Winter/Spring Writing Workshop Session On April 3, 2021, we held our second official end of term reading, a showcase wherein our authors read aloud their best work in front of an audience. While not all of our authors decided to share their work, the formal reading still served as a way of honoring all those who attended the Writing Workshop, whose...

Writing Workshop #38: Sense of Place–Beyond Geography

Post Published April 23, 2021 by Jane Levi

An update from our thirty-eighth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday April 17, plus some of the output published below In his first class in the spring 2021 series, William visited the idea of of Sense of Space, taking us beyond geography to think about the impact of place on characters in our stories, and consider the sense of place through the emotions of our characters...

Writing Workshop #37: Antiheroes

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An update from our thirty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 20, plus some of the output published below This week Stone Soup Contributor Madeline Kline, 13, led a workshop on antiheroes in which she taught us that antiheroes are captivating because of the relatability of their flaws.

Writing Workshop #36: Veering

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An update from our thirty-sixth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 13, plus some of the output published below "Nowhere is the haphazard and disruptive strangeness of veering perhaps more evident than in the space of literature. Veering involves all sorts of turns, funny and dark and revisionary. Indeed... in a sense veering is what literature is.

Writing Workshop #35: Emerging From

Post Published March 15, 2021 by Jane Levi

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