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Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secretsand its a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper.
The vast majority of writing advice focuses on writing well as if it were the same as telling a great story. This is exactly where many aspiring writers failthey strive for beautiful metaphors, authentic dialogue, and interesting characters, losing sight of the one thing that every engaging story must do: ignite the brains hardwired desire to learn what happens next. When writers tap into the evolutionary purpose of story and electrify our curiosity, it triggers a delicious dopamine rush that tells us to pay attention. Without it, even the most perfect prose wont hold anyones interest.
Backed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience as well as examples from novels, screenplays, and short stories, Wired for Story offers a revolutionary look at story as the brain experiences it. Each chapter zeroes in on an aspect of the brain, its corresponding revelation about story, and the way to apply it to your storytelling right now
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Copyright 2012 by Lisa Cron
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Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cron, Lisa.
Wired for story : the writers guide to using brain science to hook readers from the very first sentence / Lisa Cron. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: This guide reveals how writers can take advantage of the brains hardwired responses to story to captivate their readers minds through each plot elementProvided by publisher.
1. English languageRhetoric. 2. FictionAuthorship. 3. Creative writing.
I. Title.
PE1408.C7164 2012
808.036dc23
2011049478
eISBN: 978-1-60774-246-3
v3.1
To my children, Annie and Peter,
the best storytellers I know.
COGNITIVE SECRET: We think in story, which allows us to envision the future.
STORY SECRET: From the very first sentence, the reader must want to know what happens next.
COGNITIVE SECRET: When the brain focuses its full attention on something, it filters out all unnecessary information.
STORY SECRET: To hold the brains attention, everything in a story must be there on a need-to-know basis.
COGNITIVE SECRET: Emotion determines the meaning of everythingif were not feeling, were not conscious.
STORY SECRET: All story is emotion basedif were not feeling, were not reading.
COGNITIVE SECRET: Everything we do is goal directed, and our biggest goal is figuring out everyone elses agenda, the better to achieve our own.
STORY SECRET: A protagonist without a clear goal has nothing to figure out and nowhere to go.
COGNITIVE SECRET: We see the world not as it is, but as we believe it to be.
STORY SECRET: You must know precisely when, and why, your protagonists worldview was knocked out of alignment.
COGNITIVE SECRET: We dont think in the abstract; we think in specific images.
STORY SECRET: Anything conceptual, abstract, or general must be made tangible in the protagonists specific struggle.
COGNITIVE SECRET: The brain is wired to stubbornly resist change, even good change.
STORY SECRET: Story is about change, which results only from unavoidable conflict.
COGNITIVE SECRET: From birth, our brains primary goal is to make causal connectionsif this, then that.
STORY SECRET: A story follows a cause-and-effect trajectory from start to finish.
COGNITIVE SECRET: The brain uses stories to simulate how we might navigate difficult situations in the future.
STORY SECRET: A storys job is to put the protagonist through tests that, even in her wildest dreams, she doesnt think she can pass.
COGNITIVE SECRET: Since the brain abhors randomness, its always converting raw data into meaningful patterns, the better to anticipate what might happen next.
STORY SECRET: Readers are always on the lookout for patterns; to your reader, everything is either a setup, a payoff, or the road in between.
COGNITIVE SECRET: The brain summons past memories to evaluate whats happening in the moment in order to make sense of it.
STORY SECRET: Foreshadowing, flashbacks, and subplots must instantly give readers insight into whats happening in the main storyline, even if the meaning shifts as the story unfolds.
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