Should Your Antagonist Be Empathetic?
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.
Love Stories as Subplots in Crime Thrillers
McKee discusses the nature and function of love subplots in Crime Stories and Thrillers, with reference to SEVEN.
Why Is Study Essential to a Writer?
Robert McKee discusses the romanticism of creativity and teaches how destructive and limiting it can be to a writer’s education.
How Do You Position Your Audience When Combining Genres?
Robert McKee teaches the key to positioning your audience when combining multiples styles of storytelling, with reference to THE FISHER KING.
Character Arcs in Comedy
Robert McKee teaches the danger of audience empathy for comedic protagonists, and how to avoid it.
Do You Have to Be Angry to Write Comedy?
Robert McKee explains why anger is the root of all great comedy, and why comedians must be wary of getting too comfortable.