With details of the Robert McKee course today:
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"Minimalism strives for a simplicity and economy that
will satisfy the audience."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Next Up: The Story Universe
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Join us this Thursday!
1PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Although the
variations of story design are innumerable, they are not without
limits. The far corners of art create a triangle of possibilities that
maps the universe of stories. Within this triangle is the totality of
writers' cosmologies. To understand your place in the story universe,
you must study the coordinates of this map, and let them guide you to
that point you share with other writers of a similar vision.
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Can't Attend
Live?
As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're
allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
If you can't join us live, catch up on every lesson at your
convenience.
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open
door."
- MICHAEL ONDAATJE
Booker Prize-Winning Author
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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The Fragile Difficulty of Open Endings
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A story climax of
absolute, irreversible change that answers all questions raised by the
telling, and satisfies all audience emotion is a Closed Ending. The
vast majority of stories that enter the world conclude in this manner.
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Minimalist
writers, on the other hand, often leave one or two questions
unanswered, with an emotional residue left for the audience to satisfy.
Instead, the answers are discovered in the privacy of post story
thoughts.
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If the audience
members want a happy resolution, but their hearts tell them things will
not be ok, it’s a sad evening. If they can convince themselves the
protagonists will live happily ever after, they walk out pleased. The
minimalist storyteller deliberately leaves this last critical bit of
work to the audience.
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Though Open
Endings may finish on a question mark of thought and feeling,
“open” doesn’t mean a story quits in the middle, leaving everything
hanging. Questions must be answerable, the emotion resolvable. All that
has gone before leads to clear and limited alternatives that make a
degree of closure possible.
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The choice of
whether to deliver a Closed or Open Ending rests on what kind of story
you wish to tell, and the space you occupy in The Story Universe.
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Join us for
McKee's upcoming webinar on The Story Universe and discover what kind of writer you
are.
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"The
content was fabulous. McKee broke down things I'd read in books and
helped me make sense of some concepts I knew about but hadn't fully
grasped or figured out how to apply. I had several 'light bulb moments'
as I took notes, and was able to incorporate his ideas into my
work-in-progress immediately. This webinar was well worth the time and
money."
- Erin
Brescia
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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Robert McKee
discusses the difficulties in choosing an ending for your story, and
the principles at work that must inform your decision.
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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