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Lit Fest 2024
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Thursday, June 13 • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Creatures of Impulse: What Writers Can Learn From TV

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This session will focus on the way popular TV series hook viewers, construct scenes, build characters, and structure episodes, and how this can easily be adapted to add energy to short stories, memoirs, novels, and even poems. We’ll likely use the pilot (first) episodes of Breaking Bad, Reservation Dogs, Atlanta, Severance, and Insecure as examples, so you may want to watch those in advance. A few clips will be shown as time allows.
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Dean Bakopoulos

Visiting Author
Dean Bakopoulos is the author of the novels Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Summerlong (Ecco/HarperCollins). The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and NEA fellowships in both fiction and creative... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
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  Screenwriting