{"id":6852,"date":"2017-09-26T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:01:49","slug":"fire-up-the-readers-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/fire-up-the-readers-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Up The Reader\u2019s Brain\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brain-on-fire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6854 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brain-on-fire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u201cOnce you are clear about how to choose your scenes, develop them to create \u2018the dream\u2019 of your memoir. The term \u2018fictional dream\u2019 comes from John Garner\u2019s <em>The Art of Fiction<\/em> in which he writes that we weave a world for our readers with every detail we include \u2014every scene, description, character and piece of dialogue. When we fail to offer continuous cues to scenes in that world, the reader falls out of the dream.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to create this dream is to write vivid scenes that stimulate the brain to see, feel and taste that world. Research in the neuroscience of writing demonstrates that when we read a story with sensual details, our brain fires up in the areas of visualization, taste and sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from \u201cYou Must Remember This\u201d by Linda Joy Myers, The Writer February 2016<\/p>\n<h4>Posts about using <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sensory detail<\/a> in writing:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Use Sensory Detail And Be Specific<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delicious! By Ruth Reichl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just write the scene as you see, feel, hear, sense, taste, dream it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce you are clear about how to choose your scenes, develop them to create \u2018the dream\u2019 of your memoir. The term \u2018fictional dream\u2019 comes from John Garner\u2019s The Art of Fiction in which he writes that we weave a world for our readers with every detail we include \u2014every scene, description, character and piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[105,1096,747,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-just-write","tag-linda-joy-myers","tag-ruth-reichl","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1Mw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}