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The Pajama Seminars - Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in Fiction and Memoir

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The Pajama Seminars – Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play: Negotiating Time in Fiction and Memoir
Instructor: Maya Shanbhag Lang
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In books, as in life, timing is everything. How do we deliver a story in the right order? How should a book unfold?

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In books, as in life, timing is everything. How do we deliver a story in the right order? How should a book unfold?
In memoir and fiction, linear chronology can be boring, but if we play around with the sequence of events too much, the reader may feel confused or disconcerted.
In this session, we will think about structure and how to organize a story’s timing for maximum impact. In particular, we will pay attention to how to incorporate backstory. Too much of it up front and you risk losing the reader; too little, and your story will lack context.
We will examine how to raise the stakes so that flashbacks feel necessary and urgent. We will also explore when in time a story should begin. We’ll consider techniques and strategies to manipulate the reader’s experience of time, with an eye towards how these affect pacing and voice.
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Maya Shanbhag Lang

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry: A Memoir, forthcoming from Random House in April 2020, and The Sixteenth of June (Scribner), a novel. Lang has been featured in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, In Style, The Millions, and The Rumpus, among others. The Sixteenth of June was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was an Audie Award Finalist for Best Audio Book. Recipient of the 2017 Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction, Lang has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and from Bread Loaf. Her short work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is the daughter of Indian immigrants.

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