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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Novel-writing as a way to organize data\, Chaos & Complex Syst
 ems Seminar\, Russell Gardner\, Jr.\, Freelance scholar
DESCRIPTION:This is a follow-up presentation to a CCSS presentation\, 
 “Writing a Novel\,” in September\, 2014. This talk includes lesson
 s learned from that first effort. I call myself a novelist not because
  I’ve published (yet)\, but because I have a daily routine of writin
 g (it’s my occupation)\, have studied the process in readings and co
 urses\, and have presented ongoing work to others. The present twelve 
 chapter first draft of a second novel\, Different Windows\, has been d
 one independently\, this time\, of any formal class (although I employ
  a paid editor). Each chapter includes about 25-manuscript pages.
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 will focus on
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\n    Novel-writing to organize data and its relation
 s to other forms of scientific\, and “ordinary\,” means of human d
 ata-processing\,
\n    Fiction as a way to talk publically and formall
 y about matters that worry and interest me\, namely\,
\n        the cl
 imate crisis\,
\n        billionaire denial of the crisis\, especially
  highly influential ones who seek to minimize government in all its fo
 rms (Jane Mayer’s Dark Money (2016))\,
\n        the fate of one’s
  descendents after one dies\,
\n        the treatment form of psychoan
 alysis which has retreated from the forefront of thinking\, but which 
 needs representation in an understandable format\, and
\n        some 
 bleak optimism about a dismal seeming future.
\n    Formulations of Pr
 ofessor and Chairman of UW’s Department of English\, Caroline Levine
 \, who has written The Serious Pleasure of Suspense (2003).
\n    Proc
 ess of working out a second draft of Different Windows and envisioned 
 attempts to publish the completed work.
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4119
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