The Way of StoryThe 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 […]