The Best of ‘The Writer’s Brain’ Part Three: Storytelling
Welcome back to a special edition of The Writer Files called “The Best of the Writer s Brain,” a series neuroscientist Michael Grybko and I started in 2015 where I enlisted his help to give us a tour of the inner workings of the writer’s...
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Welcome back to a special edition of The Writer Files called “The Best of the Writer s Brain,” a series neuroscientist Michael Grybko and I started in 2015 where I enlisted his help to give us a tour of the inner workings of the writer’s process.
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Start getting more from your site today!Q: Have you ever wondered why storytelling is such an omnipresent theme of human life?
As we take a short Summer hiatus to book new guests for the upcoming season, I thought I d put all of these enlightening episodes in one place …
In Part Three of the series I invited my friend, research scientist Michael Grybko — of the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington — back on the show to help me define storytelling from a scientific standpoint.
If you missed the first two episodes of The Best of ‘The Writer s Brain’ you can find them on writerfiles.fm, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
In this file Michael Grybko and I discuss:
- Why storytelling is the default mode of human communication
- How empathy makes storytelling such an effective tool
- Why Hollywood continually taps into ‘The Hero’s Journey’
- How blueprints can help writers connect with their audience
- Why reading fiction makes us more empathetic
- Writers’ addiction to stories (especially the dark ones)
- Where humanity would be without storytelling
The Show Notes:
- The Best of The Writer s Brain Part One: Creativity
- The Best of ‘The Writer’s Brain’ Part Two: Empathy
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- “Reading literary fiction improves empathy, study finds” from The Guardian
- The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
- Kelton Reid on Twitter
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