Book Description
Stealing Fire will take readers beyond classical story structure to an extraordinary new story model that can demonstrate how to create contemporary stories, novelsd, and films that are significanly more powerful, successful and real.
James Bonnet reveals the link between great stories and link between great stories and a treasury of wisdom hidden deep within our creative unconscious selves - a wisdom so potent it can unlock the secrets of the mind.
Great stories are created by powerful and mysterious inner processes. The stories are designed to guide us to our full potential and are as necessary to our well-being as fresh air. Understanding great stories means understanding these inner processes can lead to a profound understanding of ourselves and the world.
This book introduces two important new models:
* The Golden Paradigm - discovery of a new psychological model brought to light by the intriguing patterns hidden within great stories.
* The Storywheel - a cosmological view of story that brings all of the different types of story together into one grand design.
James Bonnet, founder of Astoria Filmwrights, is a successful Hollywood screen and television writer. He has acted in or written more than 40 television shows and features including Kojak, Barney Miller, and two cult film classics, The Blob, and The Cross and the Switchblade.