Does Your Image System Work?
Robert McKee teaches practical ways writers can test whether their image systems are working.
Robert McKee teaches practical ways writers can test whether their image systems are working.
Robert McKee highlights the most common mistakes a horror writer can make to undermine their story.
Robert McKee explains how horror affects character change, and how that might play out in long-form storytelling.
Robert teaches how writers can layer subtext underneath a cliché in order to make the line work.
Robert McKee teaches how to create and use backstory to turn scenes through revelation.
Robert teaches how adapting novels, and the dialogue within, for screen is a matter of reinvention.
Robert McKee on how to deal with dialogue when planning out your story beats and turning points in a treatment.
Robert McKee teaches the relationship between image systems and empathy.
Robert McKee explains the purpose of subtext, and the difference between manipulation and tactics.
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.