Robert McKee provides advice on how pursuing a desire, whether in real life or fiction, will make your story come alive.

Quotes of the Week

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience,
of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.”

– Eudora Welty

“Failure is the true test of greatness.”

– Herman Melville

“The process of putting your life into order with a beginning, middle, and end
forces you to see cause and effect.”

– Catherine Burns