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Patrick
Horton is one of the most intuitively empowering and
radically innovative guides for the development and
promotion of story and storytelling - not only for
writers, but for all those myriad collaborative
players
who must contribute along the way to
bring any project from concept to fruition.
He
routinely shows writers, filmmakers, executives, and
change agents of all kinds ways to divine, express, and effectively market
material they did not know they had in them, let alone
that they could express and promote in such
a powerful and moving voice.
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is equally able in guiding representation, development,
and production professionals in drawing out the best in
their writers, stories, and allied talent. Whether
speaking to clients, conferences, industry organizations
and guilds, the collaborative goal is not to simply
improve on what is but to discover what is possible. Students
and clients - from individuals to organizations
in both real world and media reel world settings
- often
discover that their work to date has been a mere hint of
what it could have been and realize radically new levels
of discovery,
expression,
and success. In all cases, the
collaborative endeavor is not simply to repair or
improve on what is, but to
discover and effectively
realize what is possible.
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It
is one thing to be able to talk or write about
characters and their universe...
It
is something else altogether to be able to
inhabit them and give them expression.
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The
Story Coach - Practical Magic presentations and services
themselves begin with a focus on creative and commercial steps
normally skipped in other books and courses - not just to be
studied or explained, but to be mastered in the doing
of them. These crucial first steps and the grounding they give
are the generally missing sources of story and bedrock of
success upon which everything else rests - rarely hinted at
let alone covered by most related books, courses, and industry
paradigms. Fact, not hype.
With
this foundation in place, we walk participants through a
series of questions and steps that powerfully guide them to
accessing and expressing their own stories in their own voice,
with power, depth, and compelling vision to give vibrant and
resonant birth to stories from the bottom up and characters
from the inside out. It looks like
magic. It redefines practical. It raises the bar
on success.
Combine
this with an effective exploration of how transformation shows
up or fails to in real life, and how THAT shows up or fails to
in story, and you have the most powerful and intuitive
approach to story possible. Stories worth telling and well
told are never solely about overcoming conflict and achieving
some goal. They invariably are about achieving, resisting, or
failing to achieve some sort of change.
Writers,
filmmakers, speakers - storytellers of all kinds - open up and
great visions come into relief with a life and mythic
power of their own. They reflect all the classic rules and
structure of story because the latter cannot fail to show up
when story is divined and executed well. They approach story
in a common language that addresses the diverse needs and
contributions of the many collaborators involved in any
project from concept to completion. They show the way to
converging the creative and commercial processes at their best
to become one and the same. See related media development and
advocacy under the tandem banner of Wind
& Thunder Productions.
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"Since
the best stories are the ones that are the most like life, it
should follow that the best story teachers open a window to
more than just stories. Patrick’s seminars open a window
into the process that helps writers get underneath all the
stuff they think they have to do, and plug into what they’re
meant to do. It is both practical and magical, and well worth
the visit for any writer who really wants to cross that
bridge."
Jeff Arch, “Sleepless in Seattle"
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