LIVE! #12
6 October 2019
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
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 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
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)
Word Cloud
Writers Who Read: Next Up
November 3: American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson (USA, 2019)
December 1: The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea (USA, 2018)