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Category: starters
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Knockout Idea: Taiye Selasi on the importance of photography to writing
Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go, says, “I spend a great deal of time documenting…I’m always taking pictures. Somehow, these little snapshots of the world inform my work…. An elderly couple walking, rain on windows, light on anything, anywhere–these quiet details of everyday life are the stuff of human experience.” Try this: …
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Standing 8 Count: 8 Unusual Jobs to Think About for Your Characters
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…
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SPEED BAG: #001 Brainstorm from this title…
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…
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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…