Catherine Ann Jones - The Way of Story/ The Craft & Soul of Writing
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The Way of
Story" offers an integrative approach to writing narrative, combining solid craft with experiential inner discovery.
Craft alone is not enough. No other writing workshop offers the solid craft to guarantee a good story along with the intangible inner dimensions of writing. The transformation of good writing depends on making it one's own from within.
For writers of all levels & all narrative forms including plays, screenplays, stories, novels, & memoir
Seven
Steps to Story
Structure
Create memorable characters & dialogue
Balancing craft with intuitive skills
Access and free your potential story
As
C.G. Jung knew,
"Ultimately, everything depends on the quality of the individual
..."
I teach not from theory but as a working writer. That is why I know the hardest part is sitting down.
Catherine Ann Jones is in possession of a powerful talent... nothing is more rare in my opinion.
-Norman Mailer
Award-winning
New York playwright and
Hollywood screenwriter, Catherine Ann Jones, with over twenty-five years experience as a professor at major universities, offers unique writing workshops for all narrative forms of writing including plays, screenplays, memoir, novels, stories. (She is also available as an individual story & script consultant.)
Each story is unique if it comes from you. You are the most important ingredient. I encourage my clients not only to write what they know, but what they feel strongly about, either real or imagined.
George Lucas never traveled in outer space but he lived the story that became
Star Wars.
"We've become lopsided living only in our heads. Writing, in order to serve the soul, must integrate outer craft with the inner world of intuition and feeling."
- Catherine Ann Jones,
New York Times interview
Learn the Seven Steps to Story Structure
Writing comes from within and the work begins there. But craft is essential. Craft and discipline result in freedom. Three things matter: structure, structure, and structure!
Story structure is the architectural plan which provides a solid foundation for the story you wish to tell.
Learning this aspect of craft is essential in manifesting a commercially successful story .
But craft alone is not enough:
"The purpose of the artist is humble, He is essentially only a channel."
"The best times are when I seem to disappear altogether and the story writes itself. It passes through me but is not really mine. A kind of visitation, if you will."
- Catherine Ann Jones,
Pleiades Magazine
Awaken the inner eye as a lens to imaginary landscapes.
Images both remembered and imagined. How to invite your story through visualization. The moments remembered in a great novel or film are usually visual moments, unspoken moments. Learn virtual reality without technology.
Other essential aspects of the craft of storytelling:
Focusing, using intuition and felt sense
Creating memorable characters
Theme and tracking the story through-line
Dialogue is not conversation
Supportive group experience as a creative catalyst
Writing the story outline as a successful marketing tool
Techniques applicable for all levels and all story genres
"One thing is certain. You can never write a great story
or film until you sit down and write a story or film."