Should You Write What You Know or Write What You Love?
Robert McKee explains how the love of a subject fuels the writer’s need to know it deeply enough to create an insightful story.
Genre Choices in Love Stories
Robert McKee discusses the different options available when choosing the point of view in your Love Story.
Personal Style vs. Cliché
Robert McKee explains whether there is a difference between developing a personal writing style and stealing from yourself.
The Steps to Writing for Television
Robert McKee offers advice on the step-by-step process and different routes towards becoming a television writer.
What Makes a Story Travel?
Robert McKee explains to a STORY Seminar attendee why certain stories succeed internationally, while most fail.
Why Stories Need a Small Knowable World
Robert McKee explains the dangers of making your story world too big, and how a depth of knowledge is the key to avoiding cliché.
What Is the Essence of Talent?
In this Storylogue Q&A video, Robert McKee teaches the nature of talent, and how it is meaningless without desire.
How to Define Your Story in One Sentence
Robert McKee teaches how and why, no matter how seemingly complex the story, you should be able to define your work in one sentence.
Probable Impossibilities in Story
Robert McKee explains Aristotle’s assertion that probable impossibilities in story are preferable to improbable possibilities.
How to Engage the Emotions of Your Audience
Robert McKee teaches the importance of creating empathy in order to make your audience care about your story.
How to Judge Your Own Writing
Robert McKee teaches how writers must retain some objectivity about their own writing in order to judge whether a story is working or not.
The Rhythm of Story
Robert McKee teaches how writers can manipulate rhythm and tempo by mixing up the length of scenes in a story, in order to progress and accelerate the telling to a satisfying climax.
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