Creatures of Impulse: What Writers Can Learn From TV

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.