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Second life of the Minneapolis Storytelling Workshop, a project by Erin Kate Ryan and Allison Wyss. Free thoughts, free prompts, free radicals, unscheduled.

For Sale: Character trauma. Endlessly processed.

If the writer can’t stop chewing on a character’s trauma, where’s the space for the reader?

Erin Kate Ryan

May 06, 2024

Magical Time

What the slippery non-time of fairy tales can say about contemporary realism

Allison Wyss

Feb 21, 2024

Horoscopes for Writers

Stars and Tropes and Genres—Oh my!

Erin Kate Ryan

Dec 21, 2023

Writing For the Body

Get your words all the way into a reader–and your reader all the way into a story.

Oct 31, 2023

When walls talk...

Hanging art in your fictional world—and your living room

Sep 18, 2023

A Different Sort of Depth

Evoking Theory of Mind Through Intuitive Depth

Aug 18, 2023

Navigating a Reader’s Learned Expectations

A story is always in conversation with the narratives that have come before.

Jul 17, 2023

Fairy Tales As Multiverse

A Conversation Across the Red-Riding-Hood-Verse

Jun 16, 2023

The Last of Us and Characters Who Live

I'm not a zombie and I'm not your trauma.

May 16, 2023

Interior/Exterior

Piercing the boundary between thought and speech

Apr 09, 2022

Look me in the eyes & say it again

Apr. 18, 2022

Jan 18, 2022

Ensembles and Accountability

Jan. 18, 2022

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