review õ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Ó Roberta Allen
Read & Download Fast Fiction Creating Fiction in Five Minutes ✓ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Ly bypassing the inner critic and allowing your voice as well as surprising images and associations to emerge on the page Step by step Allen shows how to turn your five minute writings into short short stories intense fictions that use language with power and precision She then shows you how to use the timed exercises to built longer stories and novels You'll see for example how one of her stude Excellent writespiration solid advice coming with friendly tickles telling the inner writer that s you to just get back to it The sample short short stories are as helpful to read and study as are the author s tips on revising text Something I particularly enjoyed is the tie between writing and life Roberta Allen repeatedly suggests digging around the subconscious for the stories we truly want to and should tell This approach may not be for everyone but for me Spot on The exercises paled in comparison but by the time I had finished Part I I had already learned loads typed up 10 short stories and rekindled my passion for writing on a whim So I d say mission accomplished Highly recommended
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Read & Download Fast Fiction Creating Fiction in Five Minutes ✓ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Nts turned eight of his exercises into a chapter for his novel By looking at your fiction a piece at a time the writing process becomes less intimidating and open to experiment Allen illustrates all the possibilities with examples of students' work as well as a variety of published shorts from classics by Anton Chekhov and Robert Walser to contemporary pieces by Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Strand In the first 20 pages I did feel there was too much focus on energy and emotion It felt like I was reading some sort of occultself improvement book For example the following uote is taken from page 12Energy feeling and the writing process are the key words in these pages If you learn to follow your feelings and go where the energy is you will learn a great deal about your writing process When you know a great deal about that you know a great deal about yourselfOther than that I thought the book was all right I ve always found working on a time limit to be difficult as I m very critical so I thought that it would help meThere are over 300 verbal exercises but I found them rather bland Although there were a few visual prompts I was hoping for variety as random prompts and story starters were included but I didn t think that they were particularly interesting I ve come across better prompts online
review õ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Ó Roberta Allen
Read & Download Fast Fiction Creating Fiction in Five Minutes ✓ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Set a timer for five minutes select one of the than 300 prompts at random then immediately start writing and don't stop until time is up The rules of Fast Fiction are simple; the results liberating By telling you what to write about write a story about a coward warmth ora whisper the timed exercises focus all your energies on the telling By imposing a deadline they force you to write spontaneous This is my 2nd time reading this one and it has helped me a lot with getting stories written I discovered short shorts through reading Fast Fiction and I ve loved it since