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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Writing a novel\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Russell Ga
rdner\, Jr.\, Freelance scholar after psychiatry career without presen
t institutional affiliation
DESCRIPTION:Many people write novels. For example\, I find many column
s of the New York Times seem to have writers as intended readership (
or those who wish to write). My own focus started suddenly on a late n
ight near the end of February\, 2012. In O’Hare Airport\, standing o
n the tarmac I suddenly decided to include myself amongst the group\,
and from that moment began. I tell how this happened\, and how I have
tried to attain compositional skills in fiction\, including lessons fr
om books\, conversations and trial runs\, and now formal courses spons
ored by the Madison Writers Studio taught by two novelists (MadisonWri
ters.com). At the time of this abstract\, I am half through a year-lon
g course entitled “Novel in a Year.” It involves writing 25-pages
per month (in my case\, sequential chapters) to accumulate by year’s
end in a first draft. The structure itself has helped me. Previously
I’ve felt stymied with lengthy prose of any kind\, and suspect that
it will stand me in good stead for efforts in the future.
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nIn this presentation I plan to relate:
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\n How the proce
ss began for me\,
\n Fixed narrative features\, roles of chance
and imagination\, "what's next?"
\n Characters\, plot\, and
center” or “novelist’s mysterious question\,”
\n “No
vel novel” vs “Old novel\,”
\n Social relations in writin
g process\, and
\n Fiction-writing vis-à-vis psychoanalysis.
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3425
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