The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Paperback – April 20, 2021

First of all, this book is for everyone, not just writers. It delves into how our minds and our personal (self told) storyline connects us to the world around us. Our life experience comes from the narrator in our head. You can become a great writer by keeping concepts introduced in this book in mind with your character Arcs and story line. You can also become very in tune with human behavior in the real world and be more influential if you understand everyone around you assumes themself a protagonist in their own life. We all unknowing narrate our lives in our heads, naming ourselves the good guy with honorable goals in all our endeavors and finding an antagonist we must overcome. This motivates our actions and is our driving life force. You can learn how to appease to others’ driving life force and be more influential as a person and writer.

Here are the reasons why you should buy this book:-It has helpful scientific information on how our brains respond to elements of story.-There are multiple examples and facts that I wrote down to peruse later.-There are real strategies you can implement in your writing.Reasons you might not love it:-Talks about film quite a bit.-Like most craft books, sections could be removed to trim it down.Still, it's one of the more helpful craft books I've read this year.

Has some great perspective on the human condition and why stories is ingrained in the idea and experience of being human.

SWEET! Sweet read, let the brain loose. The Juice is on the Loose. :-)

Interesting book about the structures that shape the stories told in books, movies, presentations, speeches, etc, to keep audiences interested, at the edge of their seats!

This book is well-written and supported by research throughout, making it a compelling treatment of the subject. Adding to the already valuable content the author offers copious examples throughout the text to show artistry in action.

First, this is a great book about the connection between consciousness and narrative. Not quite as neurocognitively scientific as I hoped, but the research conclusions and principles are clearly stated. The content gets 5 stars! The audiobook and narration gets 4+ stars (a little slow in the cadence for my ears, but otherwise candy for the ears).The Kindle gets 2 stars. I got the Kindle with the discounted audible book and boy am I glad I did! There are entire pages apparently absent from the Kindle version that are clearly narrated in the audiobook. At first I thought my hallucinated version of the real world was to blame, but the words I hear are simply not in print - and the context verifies that something is missing. C'mon Amazon! Just because it's less expensive and electronic doesn't mean the book has to be incomplete! Please do better!

This book is amazing. If I could give it more stars, I would. It is just so good, I can't even believe how amazing it is. It was money well spent and I learned so much. Thank you, Will Storr!