LIVE! #12
6 October 2019
Agenda
- Why We're Here / Roundtable Rules
- Introduction to Literary Forensics
- Group Discussion
- Further Study
Why We're Here
We writers want to improve our craft
by reading like a writer
We learn from each other
using Literary Forensics
Roundtable Rules
Always refer back to the book
Practice active listening & serendipity
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but not every conclusion
Always refer back to the book
Reading Teaches Writing
Today's author: Gail Honeyman
- Born: Stirling, Scotland
- Read French Literature @ Glasgow University
- Decided at 40 to become a writer
- Took FaberAcademy.co.uk - online writing course
- Read newspaper article about lonliness among young adults
- Entered first 3 chapters into Cambridge U. Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize contest
- Didn't win, but one of the judges became her agent
What do you 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 you notice?
Eleanor Oliphant - Stats
- Marketing: Comedic Dramas & Plays, Women's Friendship Fiction, Single Women Fiction
- Genre: Realistic, Present-Day, Arch-Plot Long-Form
- Word count: 109,091
- Print Pages: 336
- Tense: Past
- POV: 1st Person (Eleanor)
- Publish date: May 7, 2017
- Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
- Paperback: Penguin
- Appropriated By: Reese's Book Club
- Awards: 2017 Costa Debut Novel Award
2018 British Book Awards: Book of the Year
2018 US Audie Award for Fiction - Best-Seller: Still in The New York Times Top 10 (paperback trade)
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