How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #14: Translation

by Stone Soup Editors

Published October 2, 2021

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...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #13: Ekphrasis

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Published September 24, 2021

An update from our thirteenth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 18, plus some of the output published below For today's workshop, Conner chose to focus on...

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Writing Workshop #47: Character Descriptions

by Stone Soup Editors

Published September 24, 2021

An update from our forty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 18, plus some of the output published below At this writing workshop, we looked at some classic art: grotesques...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #12: Metaphor

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Published September 21, 2021

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...

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Writing Workshop #46: Monologues

by Stone Soup Editors

Published September 18, 2021

An update from our forty-sixth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 11, plus some of the output published below For the first writing workshop of the Fall term, William presented...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #9: Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations

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Published June 19, 2021

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...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #8: Memory

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Published June 15, 2021

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...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #7: Excess

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Published June 15, 2021

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,...

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Writing Workshop #42: Ekphrasis

by Stone Soup Editors

Published May 28, 2021

An update from William's forty-second Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below William started off the Writing Workshop by explaining the concept of...

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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #6: Heaviness

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Published May 28, 2021

An update from our sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 22, plus some of the output published below The Challenge: Simply, write a heavy story/poem—describe a...

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