I just met with the delightful Catherine Ann Jones. She is in town for her Way Of Story workshop in Edmonds and a book signing in U-District. My favorite story is when she heard Indian music for the first time – at her marriage to Raja Rao in Paris, with non other than Ravi Shankar playing during the reception.
She’d love to come up this April and do a whole weekend workshop with us, just in time for The May/June competition season: Sundance, Nicholl Fellowship, Zoetrope, Slamdance, Shriekfest, Austin (screenplay competition), I.S.A., PAGE, Disney Fellowship, and the Expo competition opening.
Way of Story may appear as a deceptively simple memoir/manual, but it is not. Catherine rockets you into the essentials of craft, as well as urging you to dig deep into yourself and transmit your emotions to the page, and the story. Few books simultaneously pay equal attention to both the architecture AND the soul of the story. Finally, I think the book offers gems to both novice and experienced writers, including advice and a bounty of challenging exercises to get the ideas out of your head and onto the page. I wish I’d had this book when I started!
