The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
By Christopher Vogler
The Writers Journey.com
The Writer's Journey explores the powerful relationship between mythology and storytelling in a clear, concise style that's made it required reading for movie executives, screenwriters, scholars, and lovers of pop culture all over the world.
Writers of both fiction and non-fiction will discover a set of useful myth-inspired storytelling paradigms (ie. The Hero's Journey) and step-by-step guidelines to plot and character development. Based on the work of Joseph Campbell, The Writer's Journey is a must for writers of all kinds interested in further developing their craft.
The updated and revised second edition provides new insights and observations from Vogler's ongoing work on mythology's influence on stories, movies, and man himself.
Stealing Fire From the Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model For Writers & Filmmakers
By James Bonnet
Storymaking.com
Designed for screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, directors, producers, studio executives and anyone else whose livelihood depends on an understanding of what makes a story great and successful, this new state-of-the-art story model will guide professional writers and filmmakers to a more complete understanding of the fundamentals that drive the world's most important art forms--storytelling and film.
Author James Bonnet takes you on a journey through the creative process of storymaking, uncovering not only what makes a story great but also how we can use the creative process to reconnect us to our lost or forgotten inner selves. In the tradition of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler, James Bonnet explores the connection between great stories and personal growth and the significance that connection has for screenwriters and other storymakers.
Armed with this new, deeper understanding, there is no limit to the power and art that can be created through your stories. You will know how to tap powerful creative sources deep within yourself and have the tools to use modern metaphors to create stories and films as significant for today as King Arthur and The Iliad were for their times.
The Force is With You: Mystical Movie Messages that Inspire Our Lives
By Stephen Simon
Spiritual Cinema Circle.com
"Movies are the most electrifying communications medium ever devised
and the natural conduit of inspiring ourselves to look into the eternal
issues of who we are and why we are here."
So says film executive Stephen Simon, producer of more than thirty
films, including Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come. Simon
illuminates for the first time, with humor, energy, and passion, this
emerging category of Spiritual Cinema; a genre finally being recognized
for what it is: a metaphoric pathway to explore such things as the
nature of love, the meaning of life and death, the concept of time and
space, the visions of our future.
Movies have become our windows to the universe. The sheer imaginative
power of the screen has shaped the way humanity views itself, the
world, and the cosmos. The increasing technology of cinema has given us
the opportunity to see before our eyes images that reflect all that
imagination can conjure up—not only to ask the questions plaguing us
since humans first contemplated the heavens, but to pose some answers
as well.
Through his exploration of more than 70 movies that best represent the
genre in all its aspects, Simon gives us his personal interpretation of
these films and the extraordinary messages they embody.
Here is a wealth of inspiration, including the inside stories behind
the making of many films and the familiar names who participated in
their making. This is a book that will break ground for the many
visionary storytellers and filmmakers to come, and most of all, their
audiences.
In Writing for the Soul, best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins takes you on a personal and inspiring journey, imparting experience and wisdom gained from his impressive writing career. Unknown in his early days, Jenkins persisted in his passion to write, and his story reveals the rewards that can come to writers who put in the hard work and keep their priorities straight. Jenkins shares the honest and straightforward truth about how to find writing success and why the journey is a continuous one.
