James Bonnet's Storymaking

For the last twenty years, James Bonnet, writer, teacher and story consultant, has been the director of Astoria Filmwrights, a research project studying all the significant story models and theories about story from around the world and their connection to the creative process, storymaking, psychology, myth and film. The culmination of this work is the breakthrough “unified” theory of the origin and nature of story and a revolutionary new story model that can be used by writers and filmmakers to create more successful  stories.  

The book he has written on these findings, Stealing Fire from the Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model For Writers And Filmmakers, was published by Michael Wiese in 1999. A second edition, Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story For Writers And Filmmakers, was published in 2006. His new book, Cracking the Story Code, Part One: The Dominant Patterns All Great Stories Have in  Common, will be ready for publication in the Fall of 2010.

 Since 1990 he has been giving intensive weekend seminars, Storymaking: The Master Class, to screenwriters, producers, directors, psychologists and mythologists. The radical new ideas about story revealed in his book and his seminars are having a major impact on writers in all media.

He has written or acted in more than forty television shows and features. He was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Writer's Guild of America (a ten thousand member union) and served four years in that capacity.
 

bonnet@storymaking.com