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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.

Weekly Creativity #224: Write a Recipe

Post Published October 10, 2022 by Sage Millen

Write a recipe, and try it out!

Writing Workshop #69: Fast Sketching Characters (Revisited)

Post Published October 7, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our sixty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 1 In this workshop, students created rapid character sketches: short writing pieces that give a sense of a character by focusing on the face, body, and clothing.

Weekly Creativity #223 | Flash Contest #48: Start the First Line of Your Story/Poem with a Word Chosen Randomly from the Dictionary

Post Published October 3, 2022 by Molly Torinus

Flip to a random page in the dictionary, pick a word, and start the first line of your story/poem with that word.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #42: The Poetic Line

Post Published October 1, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 24, plus some of the output published below "A poem does not make sense. A poem excites the senses." -Nikki Giovanni "Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines" -James Longenbach This week Conner drew our attention to a more micro topic: the poetic line.

Weekly Creativity #222: Write the Same Short Story in at Least Two Genres

Post Published September 26, 2022 by Molly Torinus

Write the same short story in at least two genres.

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #41: Beginnings

Post Published September 24, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 17th, plus some of the output published below To kick off the his workshop of the fall term, Conner taught a class on beginnings.

Writing Workshop #68: Sense of Place

Post Published September 24, 2022 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our sixty-eighth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, September 17, plus some of the output published below In this workshop, we covered the idea of ‘sense of place.’ The students learned that sense of place is a literary device that not only evokes physical, objective descriptions, but also uses vivid imagery to capture the thoughts and feelings of a c...

Weekly Creativity #221: Do an Art Project on Your Sidewalk Using Chalk

Post Published September 19, 2022 by Sage Millen

Do an art project on your sidewalk using chalk.

Weekly Creativity #220: Write an Erasure Poem

Post Published September 12, 2022 by Molly Torinus

Write an erasure poem—find a poem or a page from a novel or article, and cross out words to create a new poem.

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