LIVE! #14
1 December 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
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
The House of Broken Angels - Stats
- Marketing: Emigration & Immigration, Emigration & Immigration Studies, Hispanic American Literature
- Genres: Literary Fiction
- Genre: Realistic, Present Day, Arch-Plot Long-Form
- Word count: 88,898
- Print Pages: 337
- Tense: Past
- POV: 3rd Person: Omniscient
- Publish date: March 6, 2018
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Sold By: Hachette Book Group
- Awards: 2018 NYT 100 Notable Books
Word Cloud
Writers Who Read: Coming Up
January 5: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (USA, 2019) - Ocean Vuong
February 2: Trust Exercise (USA, 2019) - Susan Choi
March 1: The Lady In The Lake (USA, 2019) - Laura Lippman
April 5: Fleishman Is In Trouble (USA, 2019) - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
May 3: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
(Poland, 2009, translated 2019 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) - Olga Tokarczuk