But when she can’t get rid of the dog, she’s forced to confront the fact that the very thing she spent her life avoiding-connection-is what makes the inevitable grief of loss endurable.” So she devises a scheme to steal a dog for an hour or two, believing that ‘getting’ a dog will reassure the people in her life (who are dog lovers) that she’s back on the path to emotional stability. “What if a woman – I’ll call her Ruby - who’s spent her whole life believing she’s successfully hedged her bets against love (of people, of things, of dogs) is on the verge of losing everything-the one person she’s felt close to, her lifelong career, and her grasp on reality? Mad with grief, she has one chance to set things right, but first she must convince those around her that she’s not suicidal. Here’s Jennie breaking down her fledgling story idea: I am going to use her examples so you can follow along and nail this key scene in your own work in progress. In order for this to make sense, enter novelist and book coach, Jennie Nash, who develops a novel from scratch within the pages of Story Genius so that readers can watch the process in action. The big question the Origin Scene asks – and answers - is: why does your protagonist so wholeheartedly believe something that is so wrong? I’m here today to talk about the single most potent place to ask why, which is your novel’s Origin Scene – that is, the moment when your protagonist’s defining misbelief springs into being. It takes writers step by step through the process of developing a novel that will do just that, and so at every turn, we ask why. That’s what my book Story Genius is all about. We’re looking for inside intel into human nature, the better to navigate this scary, beautiful world ourselves. What readers are wired to come for is insight into what people do when push comes to shove and, most importantly, why they do it. That’s why a generally interesting idea, a dramatic plot and lovely language aren’t enough to capture the reader’s attention. So if you don’t know, specifically, what your protagonist wants and what internal misbelief stands in her way, then how on earth can you construct a plot that will force her to deal with it? That means that the internal problem pre-dates the events in the plot, often by decades. It’s about what the protagonist has to face, deal with and overcome internally in order to solve the external problem that the plot poses. Story is not about what happens on the surface, but what goes on beneath it. Lisa has some great thoughts on the inner struggle happening inside a protagonist, and how defining the whybehind this struggle is the key to unlocking a powerful story that will capture your readers. Her new book, Story Genius, released not long ago and is traveling toward me via drone, or spaceship, or whatever thing Amazon’s using these days. The results indicate that an AHA! experience has a transformative effect on 'resistant' students' affective domains, creating positive beliefs and attitudes about mathematics as well as their abilities to do mathematics.We’re welcoming story coach Lisa Cron to the blog today. That is, pre-service elementary school teachers who deem themselves to be incapable and/or phobic of mathematics and the learning of mathematics but are forced to take an undergraduate mathematics course as qualification for entry into a teacher education programme. In particular, the role of the positive emotion that accompanies such moments of illumination in changing the attitudes and beliefs of 'resistant' students is examined. But are such experiences reserved only for the upper echelons of mathematical practice? This study focuses on the impact of these AHA! experiences on undergraduate mathematics students' affective domain. Unfortunately, such lore is often restricted to the discussion of these phenomena in the context of great mathematicians and great mathematical advancement. The AHA! experience-the moment of illumination on the heels of lengthy, and seemingly fruitless, intentional effort-has long been the basis for lore in mathematics.
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