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Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence: http://www.amazon.com/Wired-Story-Writers-Science-Sent

• runevault 14y ago
  Fantastic book, both from a writing perspective and wanting to understand why people react to certain things they do. I need to reread my copy but it gave me a ton to chew on.
• jessriedel 14y ago
  Ugh. I got into a spirited disagreement on HN a few months back sparked by how much I hate when magazines like Wired feel the need to entice me to read something mildly analytic by interweaving it with a human story. The author can't just talk about a law and its potential for unintended consequences, or even just the law and specific examples of people it hurt. He had to tell me a full narrative about Bob Jones and his green bicycle that means so much to him and the overcast clouds on the fateful day he had his front tire stolen when he was already late for work! I find myself skipping from paragraph to paragraph looking for actual analysis.