LIVE! #25
1 November 2020

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

Literary Forensics

 

What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

Literary Forensics

 

What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

Introductions

What do you bring
to this book?

“I write in these often quite short paragraphs and there’s space around them. And the reason I do that versus in a sort of linear continuous thing is that I’m often trying to figure out how to write and have something working on two different scales at the same time.” - Jenny Offill

“That sort of ability to swing back and forth all of us are quite good at, and part of what I was interested in trying to do in this novel was: What happens when it becomes less easy to do that?”

Literary Forensics

 

What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

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

Literary Forensics

 

What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

What do you notice?

Two Things:

  • 1) Save-the-cat moments (Lizzie-Henry)


  • 2) Deprevation vs. Abundance (First two sections)

Literary Forensics

 

What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

Weather - Stats

  • Marketing:Kindle: Psychological Literary Fiction, Literary Sagas, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction; Hardcover: Christian Mystery & Suspense Romance, Psychological Fiction, Family Saga Fiction
  • Genre: Realistic Present-Day Arch-Plot Short-Form
  • Word count: 31,069
  • Print Pages: 224
  • Reading Level: 6th grade

  • POV: Lizzie

  • Publish date: February 11, 2020
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Sold By: Random House
  • Audio book narrator: Cassandra Campbell

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Topic Modeling

Topic Modeling

Contour Map

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What you bring

What you feel

What you notice

What you study

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Literary Forensics
Available worldwide at your local bookstore
Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and on your Kindle

Thanks to: Boulder Writers Alliance

Contact Gary: gary@WritersWhoRead.com
Additional Literary Forensics Resources

Happy Reading
and
Happy Writing!