PDFs and Suggested First Chapter Readings

Craft Reading

Uta Hagen on the objective (Respect for Acting)

George Saunders ( A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ) - plot as “meaningful action” and the importance of “causation”

Fiction Chapters

PDF: Miller Song of Achilles

PDF: McCann Let the Great World Spin

PDF: Collins The Hunger Games

The following first chapters are on Amazon:

Such a Fun Age (Kiley Reid)

Kindred (Octavia Butler)

Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno Garcia)

Me Before You (JoJo Moyes)

Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)

The Kiss Quotient (Helen Hoang)