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

Post Published June 3, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 six ways a scene ca...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #67: Translation

Post Published May 20, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #66: Ekphrasis

Post Published May 12, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 the Stone Soup 2022 A...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #65: Long Sentences

Post Published May 6, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #64: Voice

Post Published April 23, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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

Post Published April 20, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 begin a story.
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #62: Spring

Post Published April 6, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 all involved ...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #61: Seven Narratives

Post Published March 31, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 The Seven Basic Plots by...
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #60: Tongue Twisters

Post Published March 21, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 of language?
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #59: Automatic Writing

Post Published March 18, 2023 by Stone Soup Editors

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 learned about automati...
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