Category: Classes
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Reimagining Traditional Stories
by Loren Niemi – March 27, 2022 What do you remember about your favorite fairy tale? The major characters? Three pigs, a wolf… The basic plot? They build houses, the wolf blows the first two down but can’t shake the third. What else? The setting? Where were the pig’s houses? The time of year? Springtime…
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How Erotic is that?
by Loren Niemi – September 8, 2021 When we posted the description for “The Erotic in Stories” some wag commented that it was “talking about pee-pee” which probably says a lot about his proclivities but nothing about what the workshop actually is. If anything, that comment points out the need for a considered understanding about…
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Forgetting the Middle for a Moment
Both beginnings and ending require careful crafting. It has been said that if you know where you begin and where you end the middle will fill itself in.
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Telling Difficult Stories
We make the (best) decisions we can in any given moment as to what we will believe a situation or course of action is and what we will or will not do. That is the simple part. The complex part is how we feel about that situation or course of action and what it means…
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The Allure of Summer Camp Ghost Stories
The sleight of hand in ghost stories is based on the tone of voice. It is not only what we say but how we say it.