Robert McKee responds to a question about consciously trying to write a classic, and discusses whether approaching your writing in that way is worthwhile. A few suggestions about how to write from other writers: “Every good storyteller nowadays starts...
Changing the Positive and Negative Charges of a Value to Create Truly Effective Scenes. From Robert McKee’s bestseller, STORY: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (also available as an audio book): “A SCENE is an action...
Robert McKee discusses the storytelling potential of video games, and helps to frame the “Game vs. Art” debate by delineating the key difference in the experience each aims to provide: the required activity or passivity of the audience. Bassim...