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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Change is endlessly fascinating to brains. The brain is constantly on alert for the unexpected, because unexpected change is a portal through which danger may enter. But change is also an opportunity, and curiosity is how we should feel in the opening moments of a story.
#2 Storytellers create moments of unexpected change that seize the attention of their protagonists and, by extension, their readers and viewers. These changeful moments are so important, they’re often packed into a story’s first sentences.
#3 The threat of change is a highly effective technique for arousing curiosity. It doesn’t have to be as overt as a psycho’s knife behind a shower curtain.
#4 Curiosity is a powerful human trait that is difficult to resist. It is at its peak when people have no idea about the answer to a question, and are completely convinced they do.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	04 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669349532
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Change is endlessly fascinating to brains. The brain is constantly on alert for the unexpected, because unexpected change is a portal through which danger may enter. But change is also an opportunity, and curiosity is how we should feel in the opening moments of a story.

#2

Storytellers create moments of unexpected change that seize the attention of their protagonists and, by extension, their readers and viewers. These changeful moments are so important, they’re often packed into a story’s first sentences.

#3

The threat of change is a highly effective technique for arousing curiosity. It doesn’t have to be as overt as a psycho’s knife behind a shower curtain.

#4

Curiosity is a powerful human trait that is difficult to resist. It is at its peak when people have no idea about the answer to a question, and are completely convinced they do.

#5

Information gaps are a powerful tool in storytelling. They create intense curiosity in the reader or viewer, and without realizing it, deep in the detail of his dry, academic paper, Loewenstein has described a perfect description of police-procedural drama.

#6

Our brains create a world for us to live in by making predictions about what things should look and sound and feel like, and then generating a hallucination based on these predictions. This is how we experience reality.

#7

All the senses receive information from the outside world in the form of lightwaves, changes in air pressure, and chemical signals. The brain then translates these electrical pulses into a reality, which the senses then check for accuracy. When something unexpected is detected, the brain rapidly updates its hallucination.

#8

We only know what our senses tell us. Our brains create a model of the world based on those senses and then creates a story around it.

#9

We experience the stories we read by building hallucinated models of them in our heads. This explains why we experience the rules of grammar we were taught at school. They act like a film director, telling the brain what to model and when.

#10

The order in which writers place their words matters. Word order that is filmic, meaning how the reader’s brain generates a movie of the scene, is more effective than passive word order.

#11

The senses can be evoked to create an immersive model world. For example, touches, tastes, scents, and sounds can be recreated in the brains of readers as the neural networks associated with these sensations become activated when they see the right words.

#12

Fantasy and science-fiction stories exploit the brain’s propensity for automatic model-making.