Fire Up Your Writing Brain

To ward off problems focusing and retaining interest and knowledge while reading, it’s highly recommended that you balance your “eye byte” brain by reading classic and more “literary” novels that have all those lovely convoluted sentences. Doing so will keep your brain bi-literate.

Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding. Raymond A. Mar, Ph.D. theorizes that fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communicate a complex set of information.

See It In Pictures; Write It In Words

Your task is to start noticing metaphors and working on the creation of original metaphors.

86 billion 20 billion, the rest are helper cells 100 trillion synapses Neuroplasticity The connectome Ways your brain can help you write: add new neurons, even when you’re eighty-years-old create neuronal highways that speed up processing create new synapses; renew old synapses; discard unwanted synapses wire together what you want to fire together

Scientists found that noise around 70 decibels (which they compared to a bustling coffee shop or a television on in the background, compared to 50 decibels, which would be relative quiet) seemed to encourage participants to be more creative on brainstorming or word-association tasks.

classics), one poem (lean more towards classic, not “too modern"), and one essay, from various fields: archeology, zoology, biology, anthropology, (neuroscience) and so on.” He also advocated reading all the great philosophers. “Stuff your head with as much as you can,”

The more gray matter you assign to writing, the larger that neuronal network will grow.

This is my safe place and no danger will occur as long as I’m working) to help it narrow its focus to what must be done.