Story Or Die With Lisa Cron
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Why is story so important — no matter what genre we write? How can we use emotion to hook readers — and also tap into what matters in our own lives? Lisa Cron talks about these questions and more in this discussion about Story or Die. In the intro, Ultimate Guide to Copyright [ALLi]; How […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 592 of the podcast. And is Saturday the 11th of December 2021 as I record |
| 0:41.6 | this from Auckland in New Zealand in a closet although the sun is shining and I am slowly |
| 0:48.3 | getting over the stress and anxiety of the last few weeks or let's face, the stress and anxiety of the last 18 months or so. |
| 0:57.1 | I'm sure many of you are sort of feeling that end of year heaviness. |
| 1:01.3 | I always find December quite difficult. |
| 1:04.0 | So even though I'm here in the southern summer, it feels like the end of the year. |
| 1:10.1 | Anyway, in today's show, I'm talking to Lisa Cron about her new book, |
| 1:14.9 | Story or Die. |
| 1:16.7 | And I love talking to Lisa because she's super honest and open about her opinions on story structure |
| 1:22.4 | and some of the sacred cows of the writing industry. |
| 1:26.3 | We talk about why story is so important, |
| 1:29.0 | whatever you're writing, because we're always trying to convince someone of something. |
| 1:33.8 | So if you write non-fiction or memoir, this is also relevant to you as well as all you |
| 1:38.7 | fiction writers out there, how story is about change, the brain chemicals we want to activate in a reader or a listener, |
| 1:46.4 | why emotion is so important and why 99% of manuscripts get rejected by agents and publishers |
| 1:53.0 | and of course the indie author form of rejection, which is reader reviews. |
| 1:57.7 | So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 2:05.8 | So in publishing news, well, I guess this could also be useful stuff. The Alliance of Independent Authors blog has an ultimate guide |
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