Storyteller Spotlight: Klara Fichter
Last week, we sent out a fun storytelling mission to Klara Fichter, a talented young writer about to start her first novel, and asked her to...
Voice
The voice behind a story is everything. For example, imagine if The Lord of the Rings was told by a corporate middle manager: *** Gandalf: Frodo do...
The Skin Jump
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Storyteller Spotlight: Lilly Fleming
Lilly Fleming, 11, has been with Written Out Loud for two years now and has been one of the funniest, most gracious students I’ve had the pleasure...
The Story of 10th and 2nd
It starts with a woman and her dog. Well, it doesn’t really, but that’s where I, and therefore we, start: with a woman and her dog, seen from...
Crossing the Threshold
JOE: There’s a moment in every story where our hero must decide—it absolutely must be an active decision—to leave their ordinary world in pursuit of...
Storyteller Spotlight: Zev Leventhal
For this spotlight, I had the pleasure of picking an excerpt from one of my own students. Zev is a quick-witted, totally goofy, and hard-working...