Pamela Jaye Smith

PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a mythologist, author, international consultant & speaker, and award-winning producer-director with over 30 years in the media industry. She is the author of Beyond the Hero’s Journey, Inner Drives, The Power of the Dark Side, Show Me the Love, and her latest book, Romantic Comedies: These Films Can Save Your Love Life.

Pamela has 8 years formal study in comparative mysticism and is a certified teacher of the Mystery Schools. Credits and clients include Fox, Microsoft, Disney, Paramount, RAI-TV Rome, Marseille and LA Webfests, UCLA, AFI, Romance Writers of America, GM, Boeing, the U.S. Army, and many more. Pamela is a world traveler who enjoys learning about other peoples’ experiences and wisdoms through their myth and media. www.mythworks.net www.mythicchallenges.com www.alphababeacademy.com

Articles by Pamela Jaye Smith

The Powers of Myth

Myths are the stories we tell ourselves to explain the worlds around us and within us.

Is your story mythic? Well, it should be.

And it can be, if you tap into the timeless and powerful tools of storytelling that make some tales so universal yet so personal that they stand the test of time and become classics.

It's said that every "real" myth is true on at least seven level... (read more)

The Lure of the Dark Side

What is it that lures people over to the Dark Side?

Your audience wants to find out how people and things go bad, so in your story, be sure to reveal some of how the characters become the way they are -- not to excuse their behavior but to get us engaged with them.

In this excerpt from my book, The Power of the Dark Side, we'll explore triggers and... (read more)

Do It Right, Period

The Duchess was such a disappointment.

Though the wigs were beyond fabulous and the sets stunningly gorgeous and aristocratically dignified, the characters were flat, their dialogue practically non-existent, and their emotions understandably absent given the dearth of any context for the story.

If you're going to do a period piece, do it up right.

... (read more)

Conscious Media: Part 1

Read the rest of the series: Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; read more)