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Workshops

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #19: Objects

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! In order […]

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

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” […]

Writing Workshop #50: The concept of being trapped

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. […]