The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling, based on the wildly popular creative writing classStories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can write better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers--and also our brains--create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.Will Storr's superbly chosen examples range from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Alice Walker, Greek drama to Russian novels to Native American folk tales, King Lear to Breaking Bad to children's stories. With sections such as The Dramatic Question, Creating a World, and Plot, Endings, and Meaning, as well as a practical, step-by-step appendix dedicated to The Sacred Flaw Approach, The Science of Storytelling reveals just what makes stories work, placing it alongside such creative writing classics as John Yorke's Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey into Story and Lajos Egri's The Art of Dramatic Writing. Enlightening and empowering, The Science of Storytelling is destined to become an invaluable resource for writers of all stripes, whether novelist, screenwriter, playwright, children's writer, or writer of creative or traditional nonfiction.
Will Storr is a novelist and long-form journalist who has won numerous awards. He's covered refugee camps in Africa, rural Colombia in the midst of a civil conflict, and distant Aboriginal villages in Australia. He is an Esquire contributing editor, and his work has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the Observer, the Sunday Times, and the Guardian. For his efforts on sexual abuse against males, he received the Amnesty International prize in 2012. In 2013, he won the AIB award for best investigative documentary for his BBC radio series.
He's the author of the books Selfie and The Unpersuadables, as well as Will Storr vs. The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone, from The Supernatural and The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781419747953 |
| ISBN 10 | 1419747959 |
| Title | The Science of Storytelling |
| Author | Will Storr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
| Year published | 2021-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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