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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #22: Eating

by Stone Soup Editors

Published November 20, 2021

Writing Workshop #52: Art and Made-Up Languages

by Stone Soup Editors

Published November 15, 2021

An update from our fifty-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 6th, plus some of the output published below At this writing workshop, William went over the concept of art-languages,...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #19: Objects

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 30, 2021

Writing Workshop #51: Apophenia – Finding Patterns in Unrelated Events

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 27, 2021

Writing Workshop #50: The concept of being trapped

by Sarah Ainsworth

Published October 25, 2021

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

Writing Workshop #49: Thoughtful Word Choice

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 13, 2021

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #22: Eating

Post Published November 20, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from the twenty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 20 In preparation and celebration of Thanksgiving, this week we focused on the time honored tradition of eating. We began by looking at a couple different paintings: The Feast of Dives by Master of James IV of Scotland and The Potato Eaters by Van Gogh.

Writing Workshop #52: Art and Made-Up Languages

Post Published November 15, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #19: Objects

Post Published October 30, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our nineteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 30, plus some of the output published below Continuing our run of workshops focused on concrete concepts instead of standardized elements of writing, this week we focused on objects because, simply, objects are weird!

Writing Workshop #51: Apophenia – Finding Patterns in Unrelated Events

Post Published October 27, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our fifty-first Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 23rd, plus some of the output published below For this workshop, William introduced the concept of Apophenia, which is when one takes differing, unrelated concepts and ties them together through stories. We took a look at some “chance poems” by Tristan Tzara.

Writing Workshop #50: The concept of being trapped

Post Published October 25, 2021 by Sarah Ainsworth

An update from our fiftieth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 16th, plus some of the output published below William revisited the idea of being trapped, which was the theme of one of the first Stone Soup writing workshops he ever taught—from April 2020, at the very beginning of lockdown.

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.

Writing Workshop #49: Thoughtful Word Choice

Post Published October 13, 2021 by Stone Soup Editors

An update from our forty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday October 9, plus some of the output published below For this writing workshop, William presented one of his revised workshop topics on thoughtful word choice. More specifically, William described the concepts of Consonance, repeating a consonant anywhere in a word, Alliteration, repeating the first consonan...

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