DiscoverBrainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts#83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need
#83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need

#83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need

Update: 2025-06-20
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The ultimate writing prompt challenge. Your weekend is not weird enough (or creative enough) without Brainstoryum!

This is the third and final episode delving into tips and techniques on fight scene writing, with reference to Marie Brennan's outstanding book, Writing Fight Scenes.

Join award-winning fantasy and dreampunk author, Anna Tizard, in a journey into the writer’s imagination – at once profound, surprising, funny, and extraordinary. Anna usesthe surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse to generate short story ideas by mixing listener’s word suggestions into weird sentences. The results are imagination-bending, and a real workout for your creative writing.

Listen to brand new short stories and scenes as Anna drafts them (she uses the “pause” button to compose them) and learn from tips, techniques and tools she shares along theway: practical ideas that you can use to write suspenseful fiction, especially fantasy.

Subscribe for free to Anna Tizard’s private email list and receive an e-book to begin your journey into The Book of Exquisite Corpse (includes exclusive material not published anywhere else). Go to annatizard.com.

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#83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need

#83. Writing Fights With Purpose & How Stories Can Show You What You Need

Anna Tizard