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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. 

He 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.

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.


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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