Robert McKee explains the benefits of combining genres as a tool to aid your construction of an original story.

Robert McKee explains how sympathy for a villain risks audience excitement, and why writers must be careful when introducing detailed backstories for their antagonists.

Robert explains how writers can avoid an anticlimax when placing the Mercy Scene at the beginning of their stories.

Robert McKee teaches the role empathy should play in your story, and when it might be appropriate for your audience to empathize with your antagonist.

Robert McKee discusses the psychology every writer must understand in order to write a compelling villain.

Robert McKee explains how spectacle is a form of expression while answering this early question from Bass Wakil.