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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #9: Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations

Published June 19, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #8: Memory

Published June 15, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #7: Excess

Published June 15, 2021

Writing Workshop #44: Dystopian Fiction

by Stone Soup Editors

Published June 14, 2021

Writing Workshop #43: Alliteration (revisited) & Assonance

by Stone Soup Editors

Published June 14, 2021

Writing Workshop #42: Ekphrasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 28, 2021

An update from William's forty-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below William started off the Writing Workshop by explaining the concept of...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #6: Heaviness

Published May 28, 2021

An update from our sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below The Challenge: Simply, write a heavy story/poem—describe a...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #5: The Poetic Turn

Published May 21, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #4: Dialogue

Published May 20, 2021

An update from the fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 8, plus some of the output published below This week's workshop on dialogue was led by...

Writing Workshop #41: “Critters” and Multiple Perspectives

by Jane Levi

Published May 20, 2021

An update from our forty-first Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 15, plus some of the output published below We started this week's workshop with a visit to New York!...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #9: Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations

Post Published June 19, 2021 by

An update from our ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday June 12, plus some of the output published below We began this week's workshop with an excerpt from the first two paragraphs of Colm Tóibín's novel, The Master, in order to highlight how dreams are an essential function in writing used to tell us, or, rather, to foreshadow elements of char...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #8: Memory

Post Published June 15, 2021 by

An update from the eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday June 5, plus some of the output published below Memory—fragmentary, incomplete, unreliable, contradictory, a key to explaining the present or future. "For me, there has been no difference in remembering something and creating something.

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #7: Excess

Post Published June 15, 2021 by

An update from our seventh Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 29, plus some of the output published below Excess: more than necessary—exaggeration, extravagance, exuberance, abundance, unnecessary, overload, overkill, surplus, luxuriance, improvisation, unrestraint, ridiculous To kick off this week's workshop, we began with four artworks—Pi...

Writing Workshop #44: Dystopian Fiction

Post Published June 14, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-fourth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday June 12, plus some of the output published below This week, since William is on vacation, we had two special guests leading the workshop. Maddie, who is a part of William's workshop, and Liam, who now attends Conner's workshop, led the workshop on the topic of dystopian stories.

Writing Workshop #43: Alliteration (revisited) & Assonance

Post Published June 14, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-third Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday June 5, plus some of the output published below In this workshop, William took one of his earliest writing workshop topics—alliteration—and reworked it, adding more for the writers of the group to think about.

Writing Workshop #42: Ekphrasis

Post Published May 28, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #6: Heaviness

Post Published May 28, 2021 by

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #5: The Poetic Turn

Post Published May 21, 2021 by

An update from our fifth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 15, plus some of the output published below "The turn is the most important literary effect since Homer wrote his epics... It is the dramatic and climactic center, the place where the intellectual or emotional release first becomes clear and possible." -T.S.

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #4: Dialogue

Post Published May 20, 2021 by

An update from the fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 8, plus some of the output published below This week's workshop on dialogue was led by the inimitable duo of Stone Soup '20-21 Intern Anya Geist, 14, and Stone Soup contributor Madeline Nohrnberg, 14.

Writing Workshop #41: “Critters” and Multiple Perspectives

Post Published May 20, 2021 by Jane Levi

An update from our forty-first Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 15, plus some of the output published below We started this week's workshop with a visit to New York! Photography expert Hans Kraus showed us around his Park Avenue gallery, sharing a selection of the beautiful nineteenth-century photographic drawings composed from insect parts, microscope magnificatio...

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