Deep Story

Hollywood is in the business of selling stories. And those stories generate over $10 billion each year. Think what you could do with your own writing if you knew the secrets behind writing stories that people want to buy. Think what a nice living you could make from your writing if you knew those secrets. It doesn’t matter if you are writing a novel, a short story, a feature film, TV, a live stage show, or video game script. Nor does it matter what the genre is of your story, movie, TV show, or video game. What does matter is that you realize that EVERY story - no matter what its genre is, or the medium that is used to deliver it - shares a similar foundation and audience dynamics that you need to know how to produce in order to create stories and characters that readers will love. And you can do just that using the DEEP STORY techniques that Hollywood uses to create its create its box office blockbusters and award winning films and TV series.

Hollywood is in the business of selling stories. And those stories generate over $10 billion each year. Think what you could do with your own writing if you knew the secrets behind writing stories that people want to buy. Think what a nice living you could make from your writing if you knew those secrets. It doesn’t matter if you are writing a novel, a short story, a feature film, TV, a live stage show, or video game script. Nor does it matter what the genre is of your story, movie, TV show, or video game. What does matter is that you realize that EVERY story - no matter what its genre is, or the medium that is used to deliver it - shares a similar foundation and audience dynamics that you need to know how to produce in order to create stories and characters that readers will love. And you can do just that using the DEEP STORY techniques that Hollywood uses to create its create its box office blockbusters and award winning films and TV series. And that is exactly what you are going to learn how to do, step-by-step, using the DEEP STORY techniques you will find here. DEEP STORY is a radical approach to writing that is going to change the way you write every story from here on out. It will show you how to take a simple story idea or a single character and create complex, multi-dimensional stories and characters that readers will love. And of course the more readers love your stories and characters the more stories you will sell.

From Oscar’s Annual Bash to Cannes’ glitzy Red Carpet. From fabled palaces to rat-infested tunnels. From the floor of the Coral Sea to the vacuum of space. From the rain slicked streets of midnight Paris to the bombed out streets of Beirut at high noon. Writer Carol Hughes has lived and written about sights, adventures and characters that have dazzled audiences, and raised more than a few eyebrows, around the world. Dashing Alpha males, deadly killers, fictional red-haired mermaids, and celluloid heroes – she’s known them all. She’s navigated the killer-infested back alleys of Europe’s grandest cities and the shark-infested corridors of Hollywood’s studios – and picked up enough secrets and tips to make living – and writing – an adventure in itself. Going from award winning documentary filmmaking, to covert intelligence agent, to award winning playwright/poet/TV and Feature Film writer, seemed like an interesting way to learn the business of writing for writer Carol Hughes. And it certainly provided a lot of fascinating story material to work with along the way. Leaving the exotic world of covert intelligence for the equally exotic world of Hollywood Carol has written for Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Orion Pictures, MGM, and Nickelodeon/MTV. And along the way she found herself developing in-studio writing workshops for her fellow TV/Feature Film writers. Now she is sharing the secrets behind the simple to learn and use Deep Story ™ writing techniques that can turn even a first-time novelist into an accomplished writer.