LIVE! #3
3 October 2018
Agenda
- Why We're Here
- Literary Forensics
- - What do I bring?
- - What do I feel?
- - What do I notice?
- - What do I study?
- Next Month's Reading & Study
Why We're Here
We Writers want to improve our craft
by Reading like a Writer
through Literary Forensics training
we learn from each other
Roundtable Rules
Always refer back to the book
We practice active listening & serendipity
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but not every conclusion
Always refer back to the book
What do I feel?
What in the book elicited that feeling?
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but every conclusion should be questioned
We practice serendipity
- nothing is too crazy
Always refer back to the book
What do I notice?
- • Language and Grammar
- • Context
- • Point of view
- • Character & character development
- • Pacing
- • Horizontal structure
- • Layering of themes
- • Overall effect
Mrs. Fletcher - Stats
- Marketing: Literary Humor, Coming of Age
- Genre: Realistic Present-Day, Archplot, Long-Form Comedy
- Word count: 103,519
- Print Pages: 337
- Tense: Past
- POV: 1st (Brendan) & 3rd (Everyone else)
- Publish date: August 1, 2017
- Publisher: Scribner
- Seller: Simon & Schuster
- HBO Series (2019): Kathryn Hahn as Eve
- 7 possible Plot Types:
- Overcoming the Monster
- Rags to Riches
- The Quest
- Voyage and Return
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Rebirth
- 4 possible Story Types:
- Milieu
- Idea
- Character
- Event
POV
Word Cloud
Writers Who Read: Coming Up
November 7: Origin - Dan Brown (USA, 2017)
?? 2019 ??