BPS 077: Wired for Story - How to Become a Story Genius with Lisa Cron

Do you feel like you have a screenplay inside of you but don’t know
how to bring it to life? Today's guest Lisa Cron might be able to
help.

Lisa is story coach and the best-selling author of Wired for Story:
The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the
Very First Sentence and 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 has worked in publishing at W.W. Norton, as an agent at the
Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, as a producer on shows for Showtime
and CourtTV, and as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the
William Morris Agency.

Since 2006, she's been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers'
Program and she's on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts MFA
program in visual narrative in New York City.

Some of the things we cover in this conversation are:

What your audience’s brain is hardwired to crave in every story
they read – and it’s not what you think.

Why writing a successful screenplay is not about having the innate
“talent” that only a lucky few are born with, but something you can
learn!

How to become a more confident screenwriter, and make whatever
you’re writing now deeper, richer, more compelling, and able to do
what all stories are meant to do: change how the audience sees the
world, themselves, and what they do in the world.

Enjoy my conversation with Lisa Cron.

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