How to Start Your Story
Robert McKee discusses how to approach a new project, and methods writers can use to inspire their creativity.
Writing Your Own Love Story
Robert McKee teaches the objectivity and insight needed to write a love story inspired by your own life experience.
What is the Difference Between Didacticism and Meaning in a Story?
Robert McKee explains the difference between lecturing your audience and creating a meaningful work of art.
Choosing the Best Ending for Your Story
Robert McKee discusses the difficulties in choosing an ending for your story, and the principles at work that must inform your decision.
How Do You Fully Dimensionalize a Character?
Robert McKee discusses designing your character’s dimensions with reference to Shakespeare’s OTHELLO.
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.
The Revelation of Character Dilemma
Robert McKee teaches how to handle character dilemma in relation to exposition and what the audience should know.