Story Connection — Writing is Joy - Writing classes, coaching, retreats, and live storytelling in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tell your story with more joy and ease.
#durham peeps! Story Connection is coming your way!
Find your voice, make new friends, feel better about the world in a live storytelling class.
Sign up now--class starts Sept 2!!
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20.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"For the better part of a year, Monet got up at 3:30 am and painted haystacks."
A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits.
from @juliafgreen.bsky.social
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03.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Season 3, Episode 7: Housewifely Arts
Podcast Episode · Writing in the Dark · 08/15/2025 · 46m
I was thrilled to be invited to talk craft with some of my favorite writers about one of my favorite short stories: "Housewifely Arts," by Megan Mahew Bergman.
Thanks so much for this wonderful chat, @juliafgreen.bsky.social and @ralphwalker.bsky.social!
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15.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing
10.07.2025 15:49 — 👍 340 🔁 69 💬 7 📌 2
Story Connection, Episode 6: Looking for Love
Two stories about the weird, wonderful world of online dating
It's still pretty dang hot, and today's podcast episode has some love stories that won't quell the fire. Thanks for listening!
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27.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
I know ppl had mixed feeling about the last season of The Bear, but I was pro. I think their bottle episodes are doing something we haven't seen on TV, and I love the slow pacing/deep character that some people loathe. Sue me: I also don't like deep dish pizza!
25.06.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can't wait to watch the new season of The Bear, which is why I yakked about the pilot episode on the podcast with @ralphwalker.bsky.social
25.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Summer in the city
means cleavage cleavage cleavage
(cannot be the only person whose skull this lyric has been knocking around in the last few days)
24.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Season 3, Episode 5: The Bear
Spicy characters rage and sweat in this fast-paced TV show set in a Chicago restaurant
HEARD!
The new episode of Writing in the Dark is all about The Bear and what prose writers can learn from it. Had a lot of fun deep dishing with @ralphwalker.bsky.social on character, conflict, and Chicago. Thanks, as always, for listening--
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20.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Chaos is coming
How to keep writing when summer demolishes routine
School's pretty much out for the summer, which makes writing hard! Some thoughts on how to keep going amid the chaos:
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11.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Such a great story jam last night. Lots of laughs, a few tears too. Gathering with friends and sharing stories is the best. If you haven't tried it, you can join us next month. Sign up to receive updates on (FREE) story jams & events.
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11.06.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Story Jam tomorrow night in Chapel Hill!
Story Jam tomorrow night in Chapel Hill!
Feeling low? Got a great story up your sleeve? Come to Chapel Hill Public Library tmw night for a Story Jam! Hear stories and make friends and what more could you ask for from a Tuesday night?!
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09.06.2025 20:39 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Against Word Count
Why I'll never do the #1000wordsofsummer challenge again.
I hope everybody CRUSHES #1000wordsofsummer and also I wrote about why I won't do it again. Keep writing friends 💜
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30.05.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last night a bunch of people got together in a room to share and witness stories and I'm pretty sure I'll never meet an AI that made my heart swell with its honesty and vulnerability. Stories 4eva 💜
23.05.2025 17:17 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight's the night!!! Amazing storytellers on stage at the Carrboro ArtsCenter!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!!
22.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Registration Closes Today
For the June Writing Circle
Looking for some writing accountability in June? Highly recommend Allison Kirkland's June Writing Circle - weekly meetings in the evening on Zoom. Keep writing even as the summer blows up life!
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20.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A student called me Master Splinter today which gave me way more joy than I was expecting on a Monday in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-five
19.05.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
To all the moms, "moms" & people who give care and nurturing to other humans: we see you and we celebrate you.
And since you can't get paid parental leave or subsidized childcare or a shred of fucking respect as a parent in this country, I hope you at least got a nap and 20 minutes of alone time.
11.05.2025 23:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One Sentence Book Reviews
And a couple titles I didn't get through
Some One Sentence Book Reviews
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on any of these!
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02.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is so much in America I don’t want to see. And I don’t mean the suffering. I mean the entertainment, the consumerism, the success, the celebritism, the sickness disguised as having it all.
01.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
01.05.2025 15:35 — 👍 2994 🔁 421 💬 118 📌 42
Screaming
Screaming
Screaming
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01.05.2025 12:03 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
No screens or sound effects.
Just real humans telling true stories.
The mission of Story Connection is to help people find their unique voice and create community through live storytelling performances and classes in Carrboro, NC. story-connection.com
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