Category: speed bag

Speed bag drill #002: Mysterious deaths

Jun 22, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, poetry, short stories, speed bag, starters

So speed bags work this way: Once you finish reading the prompt, you start moving your pen on paper or you flash those fingers across your keyboard, and you keep going for at least five minutes. Today’s speed drill comes from “Findings,” in the June 2013 edition of Harper’s: Experts were unable to explain the…
SPEED BAG: #001 Brainstorm from this title…

Jun 18, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, short stories, speed bag, starters

Today, we’ll try our first speed bag drill. These are meant to be quick writings–your hand flows across the paper for as long as you can maintain it (hopefully at least 5 minutes). Here’s how it’ll work today: I’m going to give you a title. It comes from an article by Nicholas Schnidle in the…