Creatures of Impulse: What Fictions Writers Can Learn From TV

This session will focus on the way popular TV series hook viewers, construct scenes, build characters, and structure episodes. We’ll examine how this can easily be adapted to add energy to short stories, memoirs, novels, and maybe even poems! We will likely use the pilot (first) episodes of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Atlanta, and Insecure as examples, so you may want to watch those in advance. I'll show a few clips in class as time and technology allows.