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Thanks to a great new book āWired for story
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Iāve written many books over the years, and published 40 or so. Once I started writing my first novel, I found out that all the old techniques just didnāt work.
Thanks to a great new book āWired for story. The writerās guide to using brain science. By Lisa Cronā
Lisa studied and cataloged the works of several Neuro scientists. She explained all of that, plus how it applied to writing a novel.
Better yet, she then shows us how to apply these techniques to where it counts. In addition, This changes the hierarchy of your novel. Ensuring that itās focusing on whatās important to the brain.
Using this new brain science, she proposes a completely new hierarchy of needs for your book. Moreover, the fact that the brain is trying to solve the problem of the protagonist.
⢠āWhat happensā is the plot
⢠āSomeoneā is the protagonist
⢠The āgoalā is whatās known as the story question
⢠āHow are he or she changesā is what the story itself is actually about.
As counterintuitive as it may sound, the story is not about the plot or even what happens in it. Stories are about how we, rather than the world around us, change.
The more your reader discovers the missing pieces to solving the protagonist's problem the more interesting if it is.
It seems as the mind creates a mental stimulation of events described in the story. But he goes much deeper than that
Details about actions and sensations that are captured from the text and integrated with personal knowledge from past experiences these data are then run through mental stimulation using brain regions a closely mirror those involved when people perform, imagine, or observe similar real-world activities.
Havenāt you ever come home from a movie, reenacting that movie in your own mind?
When the events of the story of filtering through the protagonist's point of view, allowing us to watch as she makes sense of everything. Seeing it in her eyes. This is not just like we see things. Itās that we grasp what they mean to her.
Other words the reader must be aware of the protagonist personal effect on everything that happens.
This is exactly where I fell apart on my novel is should be a first person third person. Lisa explains all these points of view, their advantages, and their disadvantages⦠My personal choices third person, omniscient.
It also fixes another problem about tags. This technique is so powerful the third person doesnāt have to be bothered with he said;ā she said itās so intuitive, it needs no explanation.
It also settles a big dispute that Iāve always had the use of italic, quotes, and indented text. None are necessary.
Some of the best examples that Iāve ever seen for show rather than tell. All the points that the author makes are demonstrated and explained with real examples from published articles.
Itās like a five-year writing course that you can complete in three or four days. I bookmarked it extensively so that I can get back to those important points.
Neuroscience also explains why social proof works so well. And a few hints on how to customize it, for your particular problem or opportunity.
As a copywriter, one who writes advertising copy? I have long been aware of how to write directly to the subconscious mind. These techniques have been known for almost 100 years.
We just didnāt know why they worked. Only that they did work. Thanks to Lisa for this fantastic book, I now know why they work.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015