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Writing Workshop #73: Literary Dialogue

Post Published November 12, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

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.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #44: Writing Dialogue

Post Published October 15, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-forth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 8, plus some of the output published below This week's workshop, Conner began with the caveat that these tools for writing dialogue, while strict, are just his opinion, and that we are free to write dialogue however we like.

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...

Weekly Creativity #183: Write a Story that Begins and Ends in this Place: Fisherman’s Cottage by Harald Sohlberg

Post Published December 20, 2021 by Jane Levi

Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935).

Weekly Creativity #179: Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath.

Post Published November 22, 2021 by Molly Torinus

Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath.

Weekly Creativity #177: Write a conversation on text messages or social media.

Post Published November 8, 2021 by Molly Torinus

Write a conversation on text messages or social media. This could be about an IRL concern or something distinctly online: the point is to experiment with an online format.

Weekly Creativity #175: Write an Awkward Conversation

Post Published October 25, 2021 by Molly Torinus

Write an awkward conversation. This could be based on real life, or could be awkwardness caused by a fictional situation.

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.

Daily Creativity #6 | Flash Contest: Write a Story in Dialogue

Post Published March 30, 2020 by

Write a story told completely through dialogue. How do you communicate the differences between characters? How can you make sure that the reader knows what is going on? Can you make action part of natural-sounding speech? This Daily Creativity prompt is also our first Weekly Flash Contest!

Writing Activity: working with dialogue

Post Published October 4, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

This activity is built around a story by 11-year-old Lena Boesser-Koschmann, first published in the November/December 1992 issue of Stone Soup, and more recently in the Stone Soup Book of Animal Stories. "The Bear" is a great story on many levels. For the purposes of this activity, we focus on its powerful use of dialogue to unfold events, reveal character, and express feelings.

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