The Way of StoryOnline 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.
The Art of Pitching
The Art of Pitching – (Teaching in the NYC workshop) – Catherine Ann Jones
In olden days in Hollywood, studio heads such as Louis B. Mayer or David Selznick would say, “Just tell me the story”-not let me read the story. The fact is most Hollywood execs do not like to read. This is as true today as then. Jack Warner (Warner Brothers) once said, “I would rather take a fifty-mile hike than crawl through a book.” Sam Goldwyn (MGM) remarked, “I read part of it all the way through.”
Risk & Change: Journey and Process
Screentalk magazine interview March-April 2003 – Elizabeth English/Women Rock! Catherine Ann Jones – Risk & Change: Journey and Process Elizabeth English: Welcome to ScreenTalk, Catherine. In your workshop, Way of Story, which is an approach to writing for the soul, you state, “the healing transformation of good writing depends on making it one’s own from […]