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Writing Scale for May 28th

May 28, 2023

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Ace Baker

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Write about your silences… then, write about a time when you SHOULD have kept quiet, but didn’t.
SIWC Countdown: 2 days: 2 ideas to keep in mind during the conference !

Oct 22, 2014

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Ace Baker

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2 Days Away: 2 Ideas to Keep in Mind ! Okay, we are getting super close to conference time. The excitement is building and the nerves are jangling. There’s a good chance we get swept up in the three days and then, in the blink of an eye, it’s over, and we’re looking back wondering, What just…
Step 6 of Nanowrimo Planning: Time to Get Real!

Oct 15, 2014

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels

STEP SIX: TIME TO … Build and expand, build and expand . . . . Remember those five sentences you wrote in step two that you made into five paragraphs in step five? Well, we’re going to expand each of those to a page each…with a twist. We’re going to write what…
Quotation Inspiration #004: Good advice from Oscar Wilde

Jul 1, 2014

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Ace Baker

in knockout idea

Try this: Why not try a piece of writing where someone can NOT take this advice? Someone who tries their best to be anyone or anything else and finds problem after problem because of it . . .
Quotation Inspiration #001

May 28, 2014

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Ace Baker

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I love how minimalist art says so much with so little. It’s poetry, really. So here’s your quotation inspiration courtesy of Edison today!
Writing scale from The Pocket Muse

Sep 6, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, short stories, starters

Just like musicians believe in practicing scales as a way of preparing, staying in tune with the music, and connecting to something familiar, I’m a firm believer that writers can get going and create new work, even when they feel blocked, by using a writing scale, or prompt. I call them starters, and…
Title Generator #002: More titles for your poetry and prose !

Aug 22, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, knockout idea, nonfiction, novels, poetry, short stories

Yesterday, I mentioned a mashup method for creating unique titles. Here’s a second, and I’ll use the same book as my resource as an example (Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia). You, of course, can use any anthology that might be sitting on your bookshelf. Purely on a whim, and since…
Title generator #001: Great titles for your poetry or prose!

Aug 21, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, knockout idea, nonfiction, novels, poetry, short stories

One way to jolt your creativity is to come up with a list of new titles for pieces you HAVEN’T written yet. One way to do that is to make a mashup of OTHER titles. For instance, I recently bought a copy of Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia. Here’s a bit…
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…
Sara Dailey Week #001: Starter from a title

Jun 24, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, nonfiction, novels, poetry, short stories, starters, writing technique

Welcome to Sara Dailey week! Over the next seven days, we’ll be learning technique and getting ideas from a single article of hers, “The Memory Train,” that was published in Creative Nonfiction magazine, the one edited by Lee Gutkind. First up is taking a look at that title: “The Memory Train.” Other people’s…