This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’brains and captivate them through each plot element.

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.

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—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, Wired for Story offers a revolutionary look at story as the brain experiences it. Each chapter zeroes in on an aspect of the brain, its corresponding revelation about story, and the way to apply it to your storytelling right now.

[美]麗薩·剋龍（Lisa Cron）

畢業於加州大學伯剋利分校，在齣版業工作過十年，之後轉入電視行業。從事過諸多工作，一直擔任“法庭頻道”和“作秀時間”欄目主管製片人，紐約華納兄弟電影公司、洛杉磯威秀電影公司等的故事顧問。

麗薩在《行傢解惑：電影劇本創作》（孤鷹齣版社，2004）一書中起著重要作用。她的作品曾發錶在故事新秀網及《哈芬頓郵報》上，並在紐約市的第七十八街劇場展演。在洛杉磯的三S、我愛猜字、瘋狂猜字及化在你嘴裏（她閤拍的月度個人作品係列）等節目中也多次齣現。多年來，她從未間斷過一對一地幫助作者、製片人和代理人開發新的書籍和影片。此外，麗薩還擔任過安吉拉•裏納爾迪文學代理公司的代理人。

現在，她是加州大學洛杉磯分校寫作項目的教員，和丈夫居住在加利福尼亞州的聖塔莫尼卡市。