The Way of Story“Enriching the Human Spirit through Film” – Ojai Film Festival
This marks my ninth year as a judge for the Ojai Film Festival whose theme is “Enriching the Human Spirit through Film”. Last night, November 5, 2009, on the recreation grounds of the Ojai Valley Inn, this unique international film festival was opened with a free screening of a new and brilliant documentary feature, The […]
Can Movies Make a Difference?
Catherine Ann Jones In 1994, Quentin Taratino wrote a fictional story about Mickey & Mallory Knox, a honeymoon couple who, as a perverse aphrodisiac, randomly shot and killed over 50 people. Oliver Stone directed the film and the week it opened, a real young couple in the Midwest went on a rampage killing 4-5 strangers. […]
The Way of Story – Book Reviews
The Way of Story reviewed by Patricia Fry at Spawn.org, ATMA Magazine, and Matthew Terry for Michael Wiese Productions.
The Way of Story
No other writing book offers the solid craft to guarantee a good story along with the intangible inner dimensions of writing. It is the integration of both solid craft and experiential inner discovery that makes this book on writing unique.
Non-duality Press: Book review of The Way of Story
Catherine Ann Jones gets to the heart of writing a story. The book’s emphasis is on knowing who you are. Jones tells about her personal experiences in the world of writing and writers and this contributes a texture of behind-the-scenes humanness.
Theater 150’s production of On the Edge, Oct-Nov 2004
Sometimes story ideas may arise from what happens to us in our own lives. Yet they usually connect with something felt within. My first long play was about Virginia Woolf. I was still acting then and had been cast to play Virginia Woolf in the comedy, An Evening in Bloomsbury by Victoria Sullivan, produced off-Broadway in New York.
Online Courses at the Daily OM
Way of Story Writing Course Our world is made up of stories. If you don’t like the one you’re in, write a better one. Like your Soul, the soul of story is a combination of craft and magic, a uniting of head and heart. We live in a world of too much separation and pain […]
NYU Selects The Way of Story for Writing Program
“As in mounds of vividly painted autumn leaves, The Way of Story allows its users to romp endlessly in a continuing world of discovery, imagination, and innovation. Its resources for the story teller are limitless and lasting.” – Leslie Lee, Faculty, NYU and Broadway playwright Students in New York University’s Writing Program will soon be […]
The Way of Story
The Way of Story – by Catherine Ann Jones
Sometimes story ideas may arise from what happens to us in our own lives. Yet they usually connect with something felt within. I was still acting then and had been cast to play Virginia Woolf in an off-Broadway comedy. I began reading everything I could find by and about Woolf in order to better portray the character.