Category: standing 8 count

8 ways to connect to your creativity , from The Portable MFA

Aug 19, 2013

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Ace Baker

in knockout idea, standing 8 count, starters

The following 8 ways to connect to your creativity come from The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, by The New York Writers Workshop (pp. 204-205): 1. Read a newspaper and free-write about something you find there. 2. Write a letter to an old lover. (Don’t send it.) 3. Do a physical activity you’ve never…
Horror week #005: “What are you afraid of?” Michael Slade

Aug 5, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, short stories, standing 8 count

8+ FEARS TO THINK ABOUT In October, 2005, I attended a session given by Jay Clarke, aka Michael Slade, horror/thriller novelist. The subject of the workshop was FEAR. Here’s a few of the notes I took: “No one ever lost money by offering readers a good ride to hell.” –Michael Slade –“Fear is the…
8 Titles You Can THINK SOMETHING DIFFERENT For. . .

Jul 4, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, knockout idea, novels, poetry, short stories, standing 8 count

In the July / August 2013 Report on Business, Eric Reguly has an article titled “STORAGE WARS,” but it’s not about the TV show where people buy abandoned storage lockers in the hopes of finding treasure. It’s actually aboput Big Oil’s reserves and what would happen to them if we stopped “burning the stuff…
Standing 8 Count: 8 Unusual Jobs to Think About for Your Characters

Jun 19, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, poetry, short stories, standing 8 count, starters

While you’re just standing there (sitting there?), let me tell you about a piece of a list I found in the June 2013 edition of Harper’s. The clip was called “Naan to Five,” and it contained several of the 2,945 occupations listed in the current edition of India’s National Classification of Occupations. Here are a…

Category: standing 8 count

8 ways to connect to your creativity , from The Portable MFA

Horror week #005: “What are you afraid of?” Michael Slade

8 Titles You Can THINK SOMETHING DIFFERENT For. . .

Standing 8 Count: 8 Unusual Jobs to Think About for Your Characters