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Writing Workshop

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #30: Character Description

An update from the thirtieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 5, plus some of the output published below We began this week’s workshop with an exercise; first, we chose a character from a story or novel we had been writing and then made up a new […]

Writing Workshop #59: Rhythm and Cadence

An update from our fifty-ninth Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, February 19th, plus some of the output published below In this workshop, William emphasized the importance of rhythm in pieces of writing. The participants looked at pieces that utilize iambic pantameter and other well-known rhythmic standards. William also touched upon […]

How Stories Work: Writing Workshop #29: Writing Dialogue

An update from the twenty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 26, plus some of the output published below To begin today’s workshop, Conner showed us the opening sequence from the 2001 film adaptation of Waiting for Godot, asking that we notice what made the dialogue good—specifically to […]