LIVE! #29
7 March 2021
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: Charles Yu
- Short Stories
- Problems for Self-Study, Third Class Superhero
- Previous Novel
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010)
- TV writing
- HBO's Westworld (1st season)
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?
2nd Person Present Tense:
CAVEAT SCRIPTOR
. . . very, very few authors have succeeded
Honorable Mentions
Frames of Reference
Interior Chinatown - Stats
- Marketing: Historical Chinese Fiction, Historical Fantasy Fiction, Historical Asian Fiction
- Genre: Fantasy Present-Day Arch-Plot Screenplay-Form
- Word count: 39,662
- Print Pages: 289
- Reading Level: 7th grade
- POV: 2nd Person, Present !!!
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- Sold By: Penguin Random House
- Audio book narration: Joel de la Fuente
- Prizes: 2020 National Book Award - Fiction
- NYT Best-seller
