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Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes
Fast Fiction Creating Fiction in Five Minutes Author:Roberta Allen Set a timer for five minutes, select one of more than 300 "cues" at random, then immediately start writing and don't stop until the 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 lie," "...a broken promise," or "...a cough"), the timed exercises focus all your... more » energies on the telling. By imposing a deadline, they force you to write spontaneously, bypassing the inner critic and allowing your voice -- as well as surprising images and associations -- to emerge on the page.
Step by step, Roberta 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 build longer stories and novels. By looking at your fiction a piece at a time, the writing process becomes less intimidating and more open to experiment.
A Never-Ending Idea Generator!
You can use the exercises again and again, with dramatically different results each time. Here's a sampling: just set your timer for five minutes and, without thinking about what you're going to write, go!
Write a story about an object that is lost
Write a story about a lizard
Write a story about sanity
Write a story about a place seen by a depressed person« less