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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #18: Monster Poetry

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 23, 2021

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #16: Nonsense

Published October 16, 2021

An update from our sixteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 9, plus some of the output published below The purpose of art is not to make...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #17: The Body

Published October 16, 2021

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #15: Veering

Published October 15, 2021

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #14: Translation

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 2, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #12: Metaphor

Published September 21, 2021

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #10: Dystopias

Published June 26, 2021

An update from our tenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop led by contributors Liam Hancock, 13, and Madeline Kline, 13, held on Saturday June 19, plus some of the output...

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

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #18: Monster Poetry

Post Published October 23, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our eighteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 23, plus some of the output published below In anticipation for Halloween next week, and in conjunction with last week's partial focus on the "monstrous body," this week we focused on the neglected art form of short poems about monsters.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #16: Nonsense

Post Published October 16, 2021 by

An update from our sixteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 9, plus some of the output published below The purpose of art is not to make sense, but to excite the senses. In an attempt to "liberate ourselves from the demands of semantic coherence," this week we focused on "nonsense," allowing ourselves to engage with a more automatic, ...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #17: The Body

Post Published October 16, 2021 by

An update from our seventeenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 16, plus some of the output published below This week we pivoted to discussing more concrete individual themes—in this case "the body" in four distinct forms: the monstrous body, the transformed body, the body in pain, and the body in motion.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #15: Veering

Post Published October 15, 2021 by

An update from our fifteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 2, plus some of the output published below For today's Writing Workshop, Conner decided to tweak an old lecture on veering and give it a new spin. To begin, Conner had us choose an object—any object—from the room we were in to write about later.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #14: Translation

Post Published October 2, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fourteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 25, plus some of the output published below For this workshop on translation, we decided to switch things up a bit. Rather than teach the class towards one prompt and thus one finished piece of writing, the workshop was geared towards teaching three separate mini prompts, leavi...

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #12: Metaphor

Post Published September 21, 2021 by

An update from our twelfth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 11, plus some of the output published below Conner Bassett began our fall session of writing workshops with a question: what does it mean to write fiction or poetry? His answer? To put into language what is inherently nonlinguistic.

How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #10: Dystopias

Post Published June 26, 2021 by

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...

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