Writing Workshop Archives - Page 6 of 14

View:

How Stories Work: Writing Workshop #29: Writing Dialogue

by Stone Soup Editors

Published March 5, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #28: Automatic Writing

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 28, 2022

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 reign of...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #27: Parables & Paradoxes

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 19, 2022

Writing Workshop #58: Sense of Place

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 19, 2022

Writing Workshop #57: Writing Ideas from Music

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 19, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #26: Defamiliarization

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 14, 2022

Writing Workshop #56: Vignettes

by Stone Soup Editors

Published February 5, 2022

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 concept of vignettes—a short,...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #25: How to Make a Character

by Stone Soup Editors

Published January 29, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #24: “And” (Revisited)

by Stone Soup Editors

Published January 28, 2022

Writing Workshop #54: Informal Writing

by Sarah Ainsworth

Published December 12, 2021

How Stories Work: Writing Workshop #29: Writing Dialogue

Post Published March 5, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 26, plus some of the output published below To begin today's workshop, Conner showed us the opening sequence from the 2001 film adaptation of Waiting for Godot, asking that we notice what made the dialogue good—specifically to notice how the dialogue works, how the two char...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #28: Automatic Writing

Post Published February 28, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

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 focus on the miniature literature of Daniil Kharms and Franz Kafka in the form of parables and paradoxes.

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 journal reading from Ananya. Then, he invited participants to read passages from books they were reading that captured a sense of place.

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 Writing Workshop was a little different from usual. After the regularly scheduled writing journal reading, William launched into a new structure for writing workshop.

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 renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Writing Workshop #56: Vignettes

Post Published February 5, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

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 makes a great character, the most important attributes being that a character should be flawed and be put under stress so that, according to Charles Baxter, "the story goes forward, something in the ...

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 year, Conner Bassett revitalized a scintillating lecture on the use of “and” in literature as well as visual art.

Writing Workshop #54: Informal Writing

Post Published December 12, 2021 by Sarah Ainsworth

An update from our fifty-fourth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 20th, plus some of the output published below This week, Liam led the writing workshop on the topic of Informal Writing. Liam went over the use of common vernacular in stories and gave us examples of why more informal language could be effective in writing stories.

Subscribe to Our Newsletter