Your Scene Sucks (And How to Make It Not, Maybe)
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Date: 2020-05-09

To view or download the reading material referenced in this lecture, please visit https://joshuakleinberg.com


In this "writers on writing" lecture, Professor Joshua Kleinberg illuminates divisions between the scene’s role in “literary” and “genre” fiction, with the goal of offering useful creative writing tips to the author of each.



Work from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Elmore Leonard, Octavia Butler, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ishmael Reed, Flannery O’Connor, W.G. Sebald, Robert Stone and Mary Gaitskill is discussed.


Creative writing major students will learn to locate scene within a spectrum of “Stuff Authors Can Do” in fiction, and will be invited to complete generative creative writing prompts to build up their muscles at each of 5 stops along this spectrum: Scene, Habitual Scene, Summary, Reflection & Digression.



Creative Writing Tips Lecture and creative writing prompts delivered to students of Pace University on May 7, 2020.