GARY ALAN McBRIDE

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Literary Forensics Quick Links

Covering topics every writer should know about.

Reading Techniques

  • Close Reading (bullet points)
  • How To Read Like A Writer (16-page essay, 6 tips)
  • Reading Like A Writer (book) – Francine Prose
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor (book) – Thomas C. Foster
  • How Fiction Works (book) – James Wood
  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (book) – George Saunders

Story Architecture

  • Genres – the 5-Leaf Clover – explained
  • The 7 Basic Plots
  • Story focus: Milieu, Idea, Character or Event
  • Archplot Structure — explained in 12 sections
  • Gary’s Novel Contour Map explained
  • Digital Humanities & Literary Data Science

Scene / Chapter Considerations

  • Dictionary of Fiction Critique (book) — terms we need to know
  • Point of View: here and here
  • SCENES and SEQUELS
  • Choose your words: Anglo-Saxon vs. Latinate

Industry Resources

  • Fiction categories
  • Writer’s Market
  • ‘Book Riot’: publishing insider podcast
  • NYT Book Review podcast

Top Sellers

  • Weekly: Publishers’ Weekly, The New York Times
  • Best-selling Fiction & Literature in 2022 (Amazon)
  • Best-selling Fiction Authors (all-time)
  • Best-selling Books (all-time)

Samples

  • Classes
  • Literary Forensics Quick Links
  • Presentations
  • Study Groups / Events
  • Study Novels
  • All My Exes
  • Molly
  • Lesser Gods
  • The Promise of Youth

Latest

  • Writers Who Read
  • Boulder Book Club–For Writers
  • Interview with Gary Alan McBride
  • The Wildcat takes Pikes Peak prize
  • “Oppa” published by Flatirons Literary Review

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22 Mar

"The greatest delivery system for an idea ever invented is a story." - Aaron Sorkin

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“Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.” - Benjamin Franklin

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9 Jun 2021

“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” - John Ousterhout

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18 Apr 2021

"A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?" - Robert Musil, from The Man without Qualities

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