LIVE! #40
3 April 2022
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
Meet today's author: Damon Galgut
- Writes longhand on notebooks for first two complete drafts,
then transfers it to the computer - The Promise
- - Primary motivation: Depicting time and the passage of time
- - Secondary inspiration: Friend who related stories of four funerals
- Other books
- - 1st novel @ age 17
- - 9 novels: The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room shortlisted for Booker Prize
- - 4 plays
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?
The Promise - Stats
- Marketing: Family Saga Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Genre: Recent Historical Archplot Longform
- Print Pages: 256
- Word count: 84,068; Avg. wds/sent.: 11.87
- Reading Level: Grade 7; Lexical Density: 45.07
- Flesch Reading Ease: 76.91
- POV: Omniscient; Person: 3rd; Tense: Present
- Publish date: April 6, 2021
- Publisher: Europa Editions
- Sold By: Europa Editions
- Audio book narr.: Peter Noble (9 hrs: 37 mins)
- Awards 2021 Booker Prize
POV
Epigraph
Pa's Funeral
