November Meeting: "Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide for Using Brain Science to Hook and Hold Readers" with Author/Consultant Lisa Cron

Wired for Story:
The Writer’s Guide for using  Brain Science to
Hook and Hold Readers

“I started reading your book and just couldn't put it down!”.  

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 secrets and it’s a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper.

Join us as author Lisa Cron offers critical information for any writer, novice to advanced, who is interested in writing a compelling and unforgettable story.

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 fail undefined they strive for beautiful metaphors, authentic dialogue, and interesting characters, losing sight of the one thing that every engaging story must do: ignite the brain’s 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 won’t hold anyone’s interest.
    
Backed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience as well as examples from novels, screenplays, and short stories, Lisa Cron, author of Wired for Story offers a revolutionary look at story as the brain experiences it.

• Find out the real reason readers turn the page.
• Why use the element of surprise?
• Explore the hard-wired 'triggers' that make a story interesting to readers, editors and publishers.
• Why you should (or should not) write a lot of detail in your story.
• Understanding the importance of balancing conflict, consequences, action and reaction.

Lisa Cron spent a decade in publishing first at W.W. Norton in New York, then at John Muir Publications in Santa Fe, New Mexico before turning to television, where among other things she’s been a supervising producer on shows for Court TV and Showtime.

She’s been a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency in NYC, and for Village Roadshow, Icon, The Don Buchwald Agency and others in L.A., and a literary agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency.

Lisa is also featured in Final Draft's book, Ask the Pros: Screenwriting (Lone Eagle, 2004). Her passion has always been story, and she currently works as a consultant helping writers wrangle the story they’re telling onto the page. Since 2006 she’s been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

She is the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Ten Speed Press).

Learn more at Lisa's website: www.wiredforstory.com