The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better (for writers).
In The Science of Storytelling, writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing Will Storr applies psychological research and neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can write better stories, revealing how storytellers—and also our brains—create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.
“There’s simply no way to understand the human world without stories.”
Story is what the brain does. It is a ‘story processor’.
“The brain creates a world for us to live in and populates it with allies and villains…and at the centre it places its star – wonderful precious me.”