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Story genius : how to use brain science to go beyond outlining and write a riveting novel (before you waste three years writing 327 pages that go nowhere) / Lisa Cron.

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Ten Speed Press, 2016.

English language -- Rhetoric.

Fiction -- Authorship.

Fiction -- Technique.

Creative writing.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

View Lisa Cron's TEDx talk "Wired for Story"

9781607748892 (pbk.)

280 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A guide to using cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot). Story coach Lisa Cron has spent her career discovering why these these methods don't work and coming up with a powerful alternative, based on the science behind what our brains are wired to crave in every story we read (and it's not what you think). She takes you step-by-step through the creation of a novel from the first glimmer of an idea, to a complete multilayered blueprint, including fully realized scenes, that evolves into a first draft with the authority, richness, and command of a riveting sixth or seventh draft. Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story and Story Genius. Her TEDx talk, Wired for Story opened Furman University's 2014 TEDx Conference. She worked in publishing at W.W. Norton.

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