Hello, Protagonists!
In this post, you’ll find:
🎥 The video replay of our March Book Club meeting
🤓 April Invitation + Book Club Discussion Questions: ONE TWO THREE
“Read Like a Writer” Book Club is for our community members who want to dive even deeper into how great books work. Come nerd out with us! 🤓
🎥 The video replay of our March Book Club meeting
If you missed our book club meeting, you can watch the replay now.
We had such a fantastic discussion of Bird by Bird and talked about:
How the book is constructed
mix of memoir, humor, and advice
Anne Lamott’s archetype of a certain kind of writer
How we interpreted the book’s advice from different points in the writing journey:
as beginning writers, authors with a couple books under their belts, and old fogeys like me who’ve been publishing for nearly a decade.
did this book resonate with our community?
if so—why?
if not—why not? (We often learn more, as writers, from examining texts that don’t resonate with us.)
During the “behind the scenes of writing” portion, we talked about:
The business of being an author (with perspectives from traditional publishing, self-publishing, and hybrid):
When (or should you) invest in:
a freelance editor
mentioned in our discussion: Eric Elfman, Deborah Halverson, and Heather Demetrios
a freelance publicist
reaching out to/sending books to influencers on social media
ads on Facebook, Instagram, or elsewhere
»To keep our members’ conversations private from the general internet, the Book Club replay is behind a paywall.
If you’d like to join us in the Book Club, you can upgrade to a paid membership here:
or:
Get a complimentary paid subscription when your friends subscribe:
1 referral = one-month paid subscription, comped
2 referrals = three-month paid subscription, comped
3 referrals = one-year paid subscription, comped
🤓 April Invitation + Book Club Discussion Questions
Who is invited?
Writers who love reading and want to examine stories more closely, and
Readers who are curious about why they feel the way they do about a book.
When is the next meeting?
Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT
🥰 Introverts, you are welcome to keep your cameras off.
What is our next Book Pick?
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
Told from the points-of-view of triplet sisters who are very different, this novel will be an interesting read for us to both enjoy and analyze.
During the book discussion, we’ll chat about:
The different voice and perspective of each sister
Character development vis-a-vis the other characters in a story
What do we learn about the other triplets from each sister’s POV?
How does each sister see their mother differently, and the other characters in the story?
“Worldbuilding”
Creation of a polluted town that is real enough it could exist in our world today
Use of characters (the family who owns the chemical plant) to portray not only complex people, but also to contribute to the “worldbuilding”
During the “behind the scenes of writing” portion, we will talk about:
How does an author make a full-time living as a writer? (The financial mechanics)
Enneagrams Types
Which Enneagram are you?
Can enneagrams help you understand characters?
Writers: How to craft the kind of characters that readers fall in love with
Readers: Can you predict what will happen to a character if you know their enneagram type?
Our favorite characters in books, movies, and TV shows (and guess their enneagrams)
I think this is going to be a wonderful conversation!
In case you missed it, here are our books for the first half of the year:
April RSVP link is below!
To prevent Zoom-bombing from not-nice people, the RSVP (and Zoom link) is below the paywall.
This also allows us to keep our members’ book discussions private from the general internet; it’s nice to have a cozy, totally private space for just us!
If you’d like to join us in the Book Club, you can upgrade to a paid membership here:
or:
Get a complimentary paid subscription when your friends subscribe:
1 referral = one-month paid subscription, comped
2 referrals = three-month paid subscription, comped
3 referrals = one-year paid subscription, comped
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