An update from our fifty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 26 Somewhat of a theme for this fall session, this week we focused on another example...
Use the Atlas of Emotions to choose an emotion you've never heard of, and write a story/poem in which your protagonist feels and describes that emotion.
An update from our seventy-fifth writing workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19 In this workshop, the participants learned how to base characters on core temperaments. William explained the ancient Greek...
An update from our fiftieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19, plus some of the output published below This week, Conner focused on the art of...
An update from our seventy-fourth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below This week, workshop assistant Liam Hancock challenged the students to step...
PostPublished December 5, 2022by Stone Soup Editors
An update from our fifty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 26
Somewhat of a theme for this fall session, this week we focused on another example of form poetry: the ghazal. In a ghazal, we learned, the poem is written in an unlimited amount of couplets; each couplet is grammatically complete—there is no enjambment; each couplet ends...
PostPublished December 5, 2022by Stone Soup Editors
Use the Atlas of Emotions to choose an emotion you've never heard of, and write a story/poem in which your protagonist feels and describes that emotion.
PostPublished November 26, 2022by Stone Soup Editors
An update from our seventy-fifth writing workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19
In this workshop, the participants learned how to base characters on core temperaments. William explained the ancient Greek concept of four personality types: phlegmatic (calm and anchored; associated with earth), choleric (hot-headed and leaderlike; associated with fire), sanguine (happy an...
PostPublished November 26, 2022by Stone Soup Editors
An update from our fiftieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19, plus some of the output published below
This week, Conner focused on the art of flash fiction. To begin, he talked about how influential Ernest Hemingway was during the 20th century, which led to a discussion of Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory": the deeper meaning of the story sh...
PostPublished November 19, 2022by Stone Soup Editors
An update from our seventy-fourth Writing Workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below
This week, workshop assistant Liam Hancock challenged the students to step outside of their comfort zones and incorporate two or more separate genres into a single work of fiction.