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FIGHT WEEK is an every-other-week newsletter on writing & fighting.
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One Battle After Another (opens the original)
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I’ve just come through a gauntlet of three fights in four weeks. Normally my fights have been spaced out by a few months, at least, due to the vagaries of fight dates and my own schedule. This was my first time doing a string of fights in a row. My expectation was that I would feel sharper and stronger with each fight, and that I would be able to immediately apply what I learned from the first fight to the second and so on. But reality turned out to be more complicated, as it usually is, and thi
The Long Walk (opens the original)
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The hardest part of a fight is not the actual fight. By the time the first bell goes off you’re being hurtled forward by momentum, adrenaline. 3 rounds x 2 minutes, with 1 minute rest in between. It all goes by in a flash. All you have to do, I tell myself as I meet my opponent in the center of the ring, is be strong for 6 minutes. The hardest part is the week before, the day before, the hours before. I feel wired with nerves and excitement. I feel supercharged. A part of me loves this feeling —
On Description (opens the original)
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Describe the world. That is one of the writer’s first-order tasks. The world in question could be a city apartment or an abandoned ranch in the desert or your childhood home or a menacing forest or a soccer field or a space station on another planet. Description usually includes details and yet at the same time a pile of details does not necessarily make for a compelling description. It is possible to offer many details of a place or person or experience and actually tell us very little. Because
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