Is Everyone A Writer?

Is narrative hardwired in all of us? Is it only a matter of tapping into our innate creativity?

Dan Kois: … Barry isn't particularly interested in the writer's craft. She's more interested in where ideas come from — and her goal is to help people tap into what she considers to be an innate creativity.

"Kids don't plan to play," she told her class in the first day. "They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' " Narrative, Barry believes, is so hard-wired into human beings that creativity can come as naturally to adults as it does to children. They need only to access the deep part of the brain that controls that storytelling instinct. Barry calls that state of…