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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #39: Long Sentences

by Stone Soup Editors

Published June 4, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #38: Anaphora

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 28, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #37: Poetry (Revisited)

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 21, 2022

An update from our thirty-seventh Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 14, plus some of the output published below During every session, Conner devotes one workshop to...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #36: Collage Poetry

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 14, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #35: Lightness (Revisited)

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 7, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #34: Objects (Revisited)

by Stone Soup Editors

Published April 30, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #33: How to Outline a Novel

by Stone Soup Editors

Published March 31, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #32: Katabasis & Anabasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published March 28, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #31: Irony

by Stone Soup Editors

Published March 19, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #30: Character Description

by Stone Soup Editors

Published March 12, 2022

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #39: Long Sentences

Post Published June 4, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our thirty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 28, plus some of the output published below. This week, Conner lectured on something he never had before: long sentences, which have become in today's day and age somewhat of a dying art form.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #38: Anaphora

Post Published May 28, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our thirty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 21, plus some of the output published below This week we focused on the literary device of anaphora, meaning a repetition of word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or poetic lines. From the greek, literally "a carrying back.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #37: Poetry (Revisited)

Post Published May 21, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #36: Collage Poetry

Post Published May 14, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 7, plus some of the output published below This week, we continued with Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the new Millennium. After focusing on "lightness" last week, we turned our focus to "multiplicity," defined as the quality or state of being multiple or various.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #35: Lightness (Revisited)

Post Published May 7, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-fifth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday April 30th, 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.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #34: Objects (Revisited)

Post Published April 30, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday April 23, plus some of the output published below After the success we had discussing objects back in the fall session of 2021, we once again turned our focus to these strange, almost alien things. And yes, objects are strange!

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #33: How to Outline a Novel

Post Published March 31, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 26, plus some of the output published below Last week, Conner gave us the choice to select the final topic of the winter session workshops from a number of options, and we chose this: How to Outline a Novel.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #32: Katabasis & Anabasis

Post Published March 28, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 19, plus some of the output published below This week, we turned our focus to two Greek words/themes—katabasis (descent) and anabasis (ascent)—both of which have a long standing tradition in literature.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #31: Irony

Post Published March 19, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 12, plus some of the output published below By popular demand, this week we focused on writing the concept of irony. We began with a few basic definitions of irony: the difference between what something appears to mean versus its literal meaning, the difference between what someo...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #30: Character Description

Post Published March 12, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the thirtieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 5, plus some of the output published below We began this week's workshop with an exercise; first, we chose a character from a story or novel we had been writing and then made up a new character in our minds.

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