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Book Review: Wired for Story by Lisa Cron

What is a story? Is it the character or the plot? Is it the achievement of the character’s goals or the feelings of the readers about the character and the story? Lisa Cron dives deeper into describing what a story is about in her book, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence . A story is not just about the characters, events, and the setting but it’s a brain simulation that prepares us to handle situations like those the character faces. Since the brain’s purpose is to keep us safe, it learns from stories the different ways of dealing with real-life circumstances.  Cron explains the importance of brain science in telling a story by citing studies and insights from prominent neuroscientists such as Antonio Damasio, Marco Iacoboni, and Richard Restak. According to neuroscience, the brain follows certain rules when understanding the actions, thoughts, and motivations of the characters, the nuances of the stor...

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