Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence comes out today. Its author is Lisa Cron. I have only read the Contents section and a few pages of the introduction,
There are some circumstances in which we can tell an audience what to do, some where we must sell them (or convince) them to do something, and then there are those times when we do not have the authority (or
Just sat through a talk with a long and useless introduction concerning what the speaker had considered saying but decided against, how he stumbled upon his approach to the topic, and finally, the five elements of it he planned to