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Category: fiction
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TC Boyle Week: #2–STRONG SOUND IMAGERY
Writers often use imagery–appealing to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch–to help create a mood. While examples of stunning sight imagery abound, it’s rare to find stellar examples of the others. Today, let’s look at another short passage from T. C. Boyle‘s short story, “The Night of the Satellite”: A truck went blatting…
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TC Boyle week: #1–a story starter for you!
This week at fighttowrite.com, we’re going to check in with short story writer extraordinaire, T. C. Boyle, via his short story “The Night of the Satellite.” Let’s begin with the beginning: What we were arguing about that night–and it was late, very late, 3:10 A. M. by my watch–was something that had happened nearly twelve…