TAKE COMMAND OF YOUR
CREATIVE
CHOICES
McKee’s 2023 SUMMER Webinar PROGRAM
5 Series | On Demand until September 30, 2023
Creativity is choice-making. To write with true creative freedom requires both an awareness of the choices before you and an appreciation of the significance of your decisions. This summer, McKee offers five new webinar series on fundamental questions faced by writers for the page, stage, and screen. Let Robert guide you through the various forms your story may take with each creative choice you make.
Book individually or enroll in the full program. The choice is yours.
$865 (Includes Full Program Discount: Save $120)
2023 SUMMER WEBINAR PROGRAM
THE SHAPES OF
STORIES
New 3-Part Webinar Series
On Demand until September 30, 2023
This 3-part webinar series surveys the full range of storytelling shapes, from the most dynamic popular plotting techniques to the depths and beauties of simplicity and beyond to the far reaches of the most exciting, radical designs.
$197
THE SHAPES OF
SCENES
NEW 3-PART Webinar Series
On Demand until September 30, 2023
This 3-part webinar series investigates the basic component of all storytelling: the scene. In a story’s flow of events, scene designs take on many different shapes. This series explores all possibilities for form, purpose and effect.
$197
CHARACTER
CAST DESIGN
New 3-Part Webinar Series
On Demand until September 30, 2023
This 3-part webinar series focuses on the multi-dimensional character and its complex relationship with the surrounding cast. McKee examines roles with unique complexities that range from the most realistic to the highly symbolic to the boldly radical.
$197
DIALOGUE
THE INNER VOICE
New 3-Part Webinar Series
On Demand until September 30, 2023
No matter how lavish a play’s production, how vivid a novel’s descriptions, how lush a film’s photography, dialogue shapes the deepest complexities, ironies, and innerness of story. This 3-part series focuses on the power of the first-person perspective and the challenges inherent in giving voice to a character’s inner thoughts and feelings on the stage, page, and screen.
$197
ADAPTATION
THE PORTABLE STORY
New 3-Part Webinar Series
On Demand until September 30, 2023
Shifting stories back and forth between page, stage and screen is rarely a simple matter of adaptation. This complex process almost always demands reinvention. In this 3-part series, McKee lays out how the distinct powers of each medium reshape adaptations and how to preserve the essence of a telling while giving it a rebirth.
$197
BUNDLE & SAVE UP TO $120
To support your commitment to the craft, we’re offering bundle deals on the summer series. Save up to $120 when you enroll in multiple webinars.
2 Webinars = Save $20
3 Webinars = Save $45
4 Webinars = Save $75
FULL PROGRAM = Save $120
*Discounts are applied automatically when courses are added to the cart.
How it Works
Webinars
Learn online from Robert McKee
The summer program consists of five live webinar series delivered online by Robert McKee via Zoom. Each series contains 3 lessons, which are 2 hours in length and start at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada). This program runs from Tuesday, July 11, through Thursday, August 10, 2023.
Q&A Sessions
Ask McKee Anything
Every webinar concludes with a Q&A session during which Robert answers your questions on the topics covered during the lecture, or on any aspect of the writing craft. Participants can submit their questions during the live session or in advance by email.
Live & On Demand
Can’t attend live? No problem!
If you can’t join us live, you can catch up at your convenience. Recordings are made available within 24 hours of the conclusion of each event, and can be viewed as many times as you like within the access period. Recordings will be available through September 30, 2023.