Anti-Stories: Writing What Doesn’t Belong

About This Training

What if the real story isn’t the story at all? In this workshop, we’ll mine the gaps—deleted scenes, background characters, and unresolved aftermaths—to uncover narratives that traditional storytelling ignores.

Write the therapist’s notes for a fairy-tale villain. Draft the grocery list left in the getaway car. Reveal the untold truth behind a personal memory.

Takeaways:

Identify and exploit the hidden potential in narrative margins

Develop techniques for implied storytelling (what’s not said)

Transform fragments into stand-alone pieces with emotional weight

For writers of fiction, memoir, and genre-defying work.

About Sage Tyrtle

I’d been telling true stories on stage for ten years, all over the world. I’d taught workshops in India and spun tales in New York City. Won story slams, been on the radio, even on television. And when stages vanished in March of 2020 my life came to a screeching halt.

After a couple of months discovering that Napping Most Of The Day was not a positive career choice, my five-year-old self came marching into my room and woke me up and said, “HEY. Remember how I said I was going to be a published writer? Okay, make it happen.

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