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The Myth of the Lone Creative
Creativity Thrives in Community! Join Our Live Salon December 13 at noon Central!
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“Creativity is our most powerful tool to shape the world we want to live in.” — Isra Hirsi
Lit Salon Offers a Parlor Game Party Favor + Story Challenge Salon Replay!
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Replay! Story Challenge Live Salon Recording
March 2nd Live Salon Recording Dear Friends, We had the most wonderful time with you on Saturday celebrating the weeks we spent together in the Story…
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"Odd How the Creative Power At Once Brings the Whole Universe To Order" ~ Virginia Woolf
Join us TOMORROW at 11 Central for our Story Challenge Live Salon on Zoom!!
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Join Us for A Live Story Salon on Zoom
Creative permission is the theme! Fast-paced micro readings (sign up now!), a literary parlor game, idea exchange & more
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The Myth of the Lone Creative
Creativity Thrives in Community! Join Our Live Story Challenge Salon on Zoom March 2.
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The writer has done their job when the reader’s reaction to the ending is “Oh my God,” followed by “Of course.” ~David Leavitt
Story Challenge | Week 12 | Elissa Schappell says the ending bears all the weight of the story ... imbuing the story with meaning and making it…
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Then there is the other kind of aboutness. There’s this question of what is the story About with a capital A ~ Michael Chabon
Story Challenge | Week Eleven | Aboutness and "creating like the word," because when you see me, I exist, and when you see all of me, all of me exists
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The good piece of writing startles the reader back into Life. The work ... this false life that is even less than the seeming of this lived…
Story Challenge | Week 10 | Memory is a persuasive force on consciousness, John Mauk says. Narrators use that force while creating an illusion of story…
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The heart of dialogue is simple. The profoundness is to listen. — Lolly Daskal
Story Challenge | Week 9 | Dialogue... Dorothy Allison says that to create characters, we have to get them talking, so that's just what this week's…
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I never told you this, but the day after my mother died, I ate her unfinished red velvet birthday cake. The whole of it. ~ Evelyn Krieger
A strangely thrilling collaborative writing exercise
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Hell is story friendly. But ... Paradise is not a story. Paradise is about what happens when the stories are over. ~Charles Baxter, Burning…
Story Challenge | Week 8 | Conflict & Stakes: Conflict is fundamental to story & trouble is endlessly interesting ... but wallowing is not, so let's…
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