Susan Reynolds

About

Susan Reynolds is a Boston-based science writer. Her most recent book is Fire Up Your Writing Brain: How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Writer. She also coauthored Train Your Brain to Get Happy, Train Your Brain to Get Rich, Meditations for Mom, and edited Woodstock Revisited. She has also authored, coauthored, or edited more than 45 nonfiction books (on a variety of subjects, from Everything Enneagram to finance and fashion) and is currently writing a novel based in Paris. Ms. Reynolds owns a literary consulting business, has a B.A. in psychology, and particularly enjoys researching and writing about psychology and neuroscience.

Books by Susan Reynolds

Recent Posts

Coronavirus and Blocked Writers

Unfortunately, with a pandemic, the danger is invisible. Nevertheless, your threat-attuned brain is in overdrive, which makes it a challenge for you.

Study Reveals Thought Processes that Foster Creativity

What drives the need to create is not creative ability per se, but rather a tendency toward self-reflective pondering and the ability and penchant for letting your mind wander.

Empirical Study Reveals 14 Key Components of Creativity

While we all have a generic idea of what creativity is and assume we easily recognize creative individuals, defining what makes someone highly creative has eluded many.

What Creates Superior Brain Connectivity, According to Study

Participants on the “positive” side reflected stronger connectivity associated with higher cognitive functions, including memory, language, introspection, and imagination.

Tapping Into the Genius of Hamilton's Creator

Have you tapped into your creative genius? The creator of Broadway's "Hamilton" reveals eight cognitive strengths that you can mine to bolster your creativity.

What You Read Matters More Than You Might Think

You are what you read: Why deep reading makes you a better writer.

Yoga and Kirtan Kriya Meditation Bolster Brain Functioning

Fire up your brain in 15 minutes a day: Seven easy steps for performing Kirtan Kriya mediation.

To Spark Genius, Read Outside Your Comfort Zone

Reading works very different from what you're writing and has multiple benefits for your brain. Here are six that will pay off immediately.

6 Ways Reading Fires Up Your Writing Brain

Our brains are amazing thinking, dreaming, imagining, and producing machines, reliant upon their masters to program, nurture, guide, and direct them. Luckily, reading does wonders.

How Images Can Fire Up Your Writing Brain

Stimulation prepping via images lights up the specific neuronal network focused on your particular writing project and fuels imagination and creativity.