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How Stories Work: Writing Workshop #68: Six Ways a Scene Can Fail

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 27 In the last workshop of our spring season, Conner outlines...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #67: Translation

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-seventh Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 13 We began the workshop by discussing the etymology of translation....

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #66: Ekphrasis

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett and special guest Emma Catherine Hoff A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 6 This week, winner of...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #65: Long Sentences

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-fifth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 29 In this week’s workshop, we talked about long sentences. First,...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #64: Voice

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 22 Conner started off the workshop by asking the question, “What...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #63: Ways to Begin

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 15 In this week’s workshop, we talked about different ways to...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #62: Spring

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 1 The workshop started with Conner showing us four paintings that...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #61: Seven Narratives

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, March 25 To start the workshop, Conner told us about the book...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #60: Tongue Twisters

Writing Workshop· — An update from our sixtieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, March 18 Conner began by asking the question, “What is the purpose...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #59: Automatic Writing

Writing Workshop· — An update from our fifty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, March 11, plus some of the output published below This week, we...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #58: Polysyndeton vs. Asyndeton

Writing Workshop· — An update from our fifty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, March 4, plus some of the output published below This week, the...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #54: Characterization

Writing Workshop· — An update from our fifty-fourth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, February 4 This week, we discussed another fundamental building block of writing:...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #53: Images

Writing Workshop· — An update from our fifty-third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, January 28, plus some of the output published below This week, we...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #52: Micro Fiction

Writing Workshop· — An update from our fifty-second Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, January 21, plus some of the output published below In our first...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #51: The Ghazal

Writing Workshop· — 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...

Writing Workshop #75: Core Temperaments

Writing Workshop· — 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....

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #50: Flash Fiction

Writing Workshop· — 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...

Writing Workshop #74: Mixing Genres (Revisited)

Writing Workshop· — 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...

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #49: Sound & the Sonnet

Writing Workshop· — An update from our forty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below “A poet is...

Writing Workshop #73: Literary Dialogue

Writing Workshop· — An update from our seventy-third Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 5 Today’s workshop called for the writers to pull from their own bookshelves and...