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: characterization. Characterization is how a character is revealed through language, or the “‘dramatic’ methods writers use to imply the qualities of characters,” Conner explained. Indirect […]
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #52: Micro Fiction
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 workshop of the new year, we were so happy to see many familiar faces, as well as many new ones. Conner began the workshop by […]
How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #51: The Ghazal
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 we focused on another example of form poetry: the ghazal. In a ghazal, we learned, the poem is written in an unlimited amount of couplets; […]
