Template:Multiple issuesRobert McKee (born 1941), is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible" called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. Online, McKee has a blog and a writers' resource website called "Storylogue".McKee's "Story Seminar" runs twice yearly in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and about once yearly in other major cities worldwide including Amsterdam, Beijing, Mumbai, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro. The seminar covers how story fits the human mind, from the philosophical to the structural. McKee's one-day "Genre Seminars", often held 5 days in a row, delve into the conventions of the Thriller, the Comedy, the Love Story, the Action Story, and Television.Rather than simply handling "mechanical" aspects of fiction technique such as plot or dialogue taken individually, McKee examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes a story compelling or not. This could work equally as well as an analysis of any other genre or form of narrative, whether in screenplay or any other form, and could also encompass nonfiction works as long as they attempt to "tell a story".In fact, after consulting on story-in-business for various multinational companies including Microsoft, Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Time Warner, and Siemens, in the fall of 2013 McKee launched a seminar for the business community in Los Angeles, New York, Beijing, and Malta. The "True Talk: Story-in-Business Seminar" instructs leaders and managers on how to use story in strategic management, brand management, and business communications.
Movie-making is a collaborative endeavor, requiring great skill and talent by the entire cast, crew and creative team. But the screenwriter is the only original artist on a film. Everyone else - the actors, directors, cameramen, production designers, special effects wizards and so on - are interpretive artists, trying to bring alive the world, the events and the characters that the screenwriter has invented and created.
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Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
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It seemed to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic, someone who believes nothing at face value.
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Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules; rebellious, unschooled writers break rules; an artist masters the form.
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