Your brain is a storytelling sage. It leaps onto the stage of your words in response to curiosity, and finds you new ways to engage people at deeper levels by spotting and sharpening words. It’s actually quite magical, if you take advantage of the novelty-seeking property of the human brain to facilitate your stories.

You can benefit from the fact that the last 40 years we have learned more about the human brain than in the previous 400 years. Neuroscientists now show how we literally change the brain – so that neurons become more responsive and rewire to improve your stories, when stimulated in a sustained way. Throw a title on paper and let the wiring begin to reboot your brain for a thrilling yarn….

Stories develop your brain into a better storyteller much like the piano produces prize winning melodies. Neurons act like pianos, as they respond to patterned and repetitive, continuous stimulation. Why is this important for storytelling?

Write the words… “I paint landscapes,” you are using one neural system – let’s call it call it #1.

Add a related concept – let’s say “I paint pastoral scenes” – and a slightly different, but interconnected neural set -#2 – jumps into action to help you out.

Throw in a vignette: “My aging mother, at her darkest moment, when art seemed to fade from her canvass, sat deep in the despair. Suddenly a pastoral scene returned to her personality, and she whispered for me to paint her childhood farm,” yet other related neural systems are active – call them #3 and *4.

Interrelated neural systems reboot your brain daily … when you simply write and make changes … which create memory for storytelling in your brain, across all of these neural systems (1, 2, 3, and 4).

Why not weave a brief yarn today to keep your brain alive. It doesn’t take grueling effort to grow your storytelling intelligence. Your brain grows dendrite cell connectors each time you change what you write, and new neuron pathways add zest to stories you create. Ready to rewire adventures you live into stories you tell…? If so – stay tuned for more mental possibilities for story telling, at the Brain Boomer site.

By the way, I’m still rewiring my own smarts for adding images to my blogs in this new system and am getting closer daily … so expect a bit of visual zest soon, here too.