Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story.
LISA CRON is a story analyst, speaker, UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor, and author of Wired for Story. Cron has worked as a story consultant for Warner Brothers, the William Morris Agency, Village Roadshow, and Icon, and as a story coach for writers, nonprofits, educators, and journalists.
Using brain science, Cron busts the myths of good writing to help
you find the real story behind all that plot and metaphor.
-- The Writer In [Cron's] new book, Story Genius, she picks
up the. . . theme. . . that a protagonist's internal struggle makes
the story work, and offers step-by-step advice on how to exploit
this truth about neuroscience for richer, deeper, better first
drafts. . . .Cron provides exercises and examples to keep writers
on track, always highlighting the fact that emotions engage the
brain faster than anything else. . . .The concepts are easy to
understand and they are certainly important. Even if you can't go
on a retreat, you should try to find time to do the exercises for
your own blueprint.
-- PsychologyToday.com It's a simple question: 'How do you write
an effective, engaging story?' Ask Lisa Cron. An accomplished
author and story coach, she has just published her second book,
Story Genius. A manual of sorts, it teaches cognitive
storytelling strategies and uses actual brain science to help make
its readers into better writers.
-- Creative Screenwriting Cron, author of Wired for Story,
proposes this new book as the answer to the question, What's the
biggest mistake writers make? She uses psychology and other
sciences to explain what makes an utterly compelling story and how
to write one. . . .Novice writers looking for a step-by-step guide
to how to build--or fix--their novel might find a lot of useful
information in here. . .
-- Publishers Weekly Lost in the quagmire of trying to write a
novel? Well, forget everything you've ever been told about story,
because chances are, it's totally wrong. So where to turn? Story
guru Cron not only gives you the skinny on why and how stories work
(and why and how we respond to them), she also shows you how to
craft a novel step by step, working with author Jenny Nash from the
germ of an idea to a living, breathing story. I'd never consider
writing a novel without Lisa's input, and neither should you.
-- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of
Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You
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