How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #3: Lightness
May 12, 2021
An update from the third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the Workshop held on Saturday May 1, plus some of the output published below
Lightness is a "
lightening of language whereby meaning is conveyed through a verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied consistency.” -
Italo Calvino
“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language" -