Category: starters

SPEED BAG: #001 Brainstorm from this title…

Jun 18, 2013

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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…
TC Boyle week: #1–a story starter for you!

Jun 10, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, nonfiction, short stories, starters

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…