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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 -
How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #1: And
April 24, 2021
An update from our first Writing Workshop with new teacher, Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, April 17, plus some of the output published below
In his first class under the official title of
Stone Soup Creative Writing Instructor, Conner Bassett called an audible, and delivered a scintillating lecture on the use of and in literature as well as visual art. As he reminded us, although this was our first official workshop together, all of us, students and staff alike, are in the midst of our writing journeys, making this Writing Workshop less of a beginning, and more of an and. Over the course of the workshop, we learned about the uniquely conjoining, relational, and aggregational nature of the swiss army knife contraction, noting specifically its different uses within the titles