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Lisa Cron is a story coach, speaker, and the author of Wired for Story and Story Genius. Her TEDx talk, Wired for Story, opened Furman University’s 2014 TEDx conference. Lisa has worked in publishing at W.W. Norton and John Muir Publications, as an agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, as a producer on shows for Showtime and Court TV, and as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency. Since 2006, she’s been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and she has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Visual Narrative in New York City. On March 2, 2021 her new book aimed at the leadership/ business/nonprofit world, Story or Die: Why Story is the Only Way to Engage, Persuade ...more

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	Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence 4.21 avg rating — 3,907 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere) 4.24 avg rating — 2,963 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Author in Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published by Therese Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Scott Bell (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Donald Maass (Contributor) 4.34 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Last Will of Moira Leahy

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Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

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“If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.”
― Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

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“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”
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“Before there were books, we read each other.”
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