For over a decade, Patrick A. Horton, PhD
has been best known quite simply as "The Story Coach," consistently
providing some of the media industry's most innovative and radically
empowering presentations, workshops, and seminars on story and story
development / promotion. He similarly has provided equally innovative and
radically empowering private consultations and writing for hire, and has
brought the power of story, media, and social change to other arenas,
including the worlds of business, academia, and professional speaking.
Unlike most approaches to teaching and/or
creating story that treat it as an isolated phenomenon of static principles
and lifeless mechanics, Dr. Horton presents story as a dynamic and decidedly
living thing, best learned by experience and by doing. Rather than show
people how to analyze other people’s work or solely discuss the analytics of
story, he walks participants through the real and generally neglected steps
of divining and expressing their own material in their own voice, giving
birth to stories from the bottom up and breathing life into characters from
the inside out. Then he shows how to promote and sell it.
Rather than treat story as something for
writers only, he deftly approaches the exploration and creation of story in
the context of the very real industry in which it lives and the collaborative
creative and commercial processes it makes possible. Just as importantly for
all involved, he brings into intuitive but powerful and practical relief the
inseparable unfolding relationships between the story in life and the life in
story.
Dr. Horton recently decided to put the time
he was devoting to other people's projects back into his own work as
screenwriter, producer, and social / media advocate under the expanded
endeavors of Wind & Thunder Productions. This shift allows for the
creation of viable media projects in their own right while also expanding
efforts at both stimulating and executing social and media advocacy by
promoting resource development and strategies for integrating story, media,
and social change.
However, in the continued shared commitment
to bringing the best tools and opportunities for success to those who wish to
work in and/or influence the media industry, ongoing brief presentations and
full day / weekend seminars will be provided on an ongoing basis for little
to no charge in association with long time collaborators, Write Brothers Inc.
and select media industry organizations & guilds, academic programs, and
varied institutions for social entrepreneurship and applied social change.
These career and industry changing events are offered under the banner
of:
the story coach – wind & thunder
productions
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THE FORTHCOMING BOOK
Mastering The Power Of Story
The Story Coach – Practical Magic
Redefining Story, Craft, Collaboration, & Success in the Emerging Media
and Brave New World (PDF excerpt from introduction)
BRIEF
PRESENTATIONS
What EVERYONE Should Know:
The Litmus Tests of Story
It's ALL About
Story:
Ten Points to the Perfect Pitch
Lifting The Veil:
Characters With Voices - Characters Who Write Themselves
A Brave New World:
Changing Our Industry – Changing Ourselves
WEEKEND
SEMINAR
Patrick A. Horton, PhD. /
Mastering The Power Of Story
The Story Coach – Practical Magic
Redefining Story, Craft,
Collaboration, & Success in the Emerging Media and Brave New World
ARTICLES
/ BLOGS ONLINE
Click here for Patrick's online articles.
Click here for
Patrick's interview with Richard Walter, legendary chair of UCLA’s screenwriting
program.
SCHEDULED
EVENTS
Click here for
events |
IDEAL FOR: Actors | Agents & Managers | Public &
Professional Speakers | Writers, Screenwriters, & Journalists |
Producers, Directors, & Development Execs | Media, Marketing, &
Communications Professionals | Corporate Executives | Social Entrepreneurs
& Change Agents of all kinds |
Questions on story, writing, or collaboration? Send questions
for blogs and potential articles here: storycoach@write-bros.com |
