Writing Workshop #40: Ghosts (part 2)
May 15, 2021
An update from our fortieth Writing Workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday May 8, plus some of the output published below
This week, William completed the journey to the spirit world that we started last week. Inspired by the Victorian-era spirit drawings of Georgian Houghton, the group considered ways of using the idea of the inspiration of spirits in writing, as a way of communicating between the living and the dead. We thought about various means people use to stay in touch with their ancestors, from home shrines to seances, and the different ways spirit manifest themselves in stories. We watched a video of a Hawaiian storyteller telling a story about a haunted condominium, ending with the classic words and the story is true , and discussed Augustine the Samburu blacksmith s story of a baby that turns out to be a ghost. We read a section from Dickens