With details of the Story Seminar and more:
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Last chance to register for
McKee's LA Story Seminar!
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April 29 - May 1
The Westin LAX
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We are
incredibly excited for McKee’s return to Los Angeles next week! Don’t
miss your opportunity to take command of your craft, and master the
story form.
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Still
looking for accommodation?
We've organized a
special discounted room rate
at the Westin for those looking to stay at the venue itself during the
seminar. Please note that these rates are subject to availability, and
the offer closes tomorrow.
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Professional,
student and repeater discounts available.
Contact Luke (luke@storylogue.com)
for details.
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"A not-so-secret force in the movie
industry and Hollywood’s most sought-after screenwriting
instructor."
- VANITY FAIR
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"McKee's great insight and knowledge in
storytelling is unparalleled."
- LA TIMES
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Writers let their characters
speak. Not in the repetitious monotones of the everyday, rather, in the
demi-poetry known as dialogue."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Real life
conversations are filled with awkward pauses, poor word choices and
pointless repetitions. Dialogue is not a conversation, it must have
purpose.
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When writing dialogue,
keep in mind these fundamental principles:
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Firstly, dialogue requires compression and economy.
Screen dialogue in particular must say the maximum in the fewest words
possible.
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Secondly, dialogue is not a meaningless exchange of
words between two parties, but a series of character actions and
reactions. It must have direction. Each line or exchange executes a
step in design that builds and arcs a scene around a turning point.
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Skillfully crafted dialogue wields the double power to
express the effable, while illuminating the ineffable. It is the
writer’s foremost vehicle for character content and driving your story
towards a meaningful conclusion.
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Learn to craft artful,
impactful speech at McKee’s STORY Seminar.
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Anyone can put pen to
paper. Designing story with compelling, powerful dialogue tests the
maturity and insight of the writer, their knowledge of society, nature,
and the human heart. Give three days to Robert McKee’s STORY Seminar,
and reap the reward for the rest of your writing career.
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"McKee teaches what is not yet
taught. He shines his unwavering analytical light on the structure and
invisible substructure of dialogue. He takes craft that is often
considered instinctual or magical and reveals its chemical
secrets."
- TERRY JOHNSON
Writer /
Director
Winner of the
Tony Award, Olivier Award,
Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and Writers’ Guild Award
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LOS
ANGELES STORY SEMINAR
April 29 - May 1
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LONDON STORY SEMINAR
May 13 - May 15
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Wondering how make
dialogue seem completely natural? Robert McKee explains how poorly
handled exposition can lead to ineffective dialogue.
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"Dialogue is the most fun to
write. It’s kind of like a tennis match."
- SALLY ROONEY
Award-Winning
Author, Screenwriter
NORMAL PEOPLE
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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How Limitations Inspire Creativity
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"Don’t give in to laziness; we
need artistry and discipline. Set creative limitations that demand the
fullest use of imagination and sweat."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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At some point in
the creative process, every writer must answer certain fundamental
questions: Which genre or combination of genres are you writing?
From whose point of view does the story take place? How will you design
your cast? And many more.
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If you take the easy, undisciplined path that ignores
such key questions, the unrestrained freedom usually ends in a tangled
sprawl. But the discipline required by certain creative limitations can
inspire stunning works of brilliance.
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Talent is like a muscle: without
something to push against, it atrophies.
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Join
us this spring and inspire your brilliance.
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Robert McKee's STORY
Seminar teaches you the principles, complexities and conventions of
story, providing the full range of choices that will help to propel
your creativity. Over the course of 3 intense days, you'll learn
everything from the fundamentals of story structure and character
design, to how to maximize your talent by challenging yourself with
creative limitations.
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"This was more than I bargained
for. New understanding, insight & inspiration with practical,
USEABLE tools. Excellent!"
- CAROL ROSCOE
Stage Director /
Actor / Professor
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Are Limitations Necessary for
Creativity?
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Robert McKee
discusses how writers can use limitations and conflict in life to fuel
their creativity.
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"When forced to work within a
strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will
produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to
sprawl."
- T.S. ELIOT
Nobel
Prize-Winning Poet
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A Message from Our Friends at InkTip
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Whether you’re looking
for scripts or have some of your own, InkTip can help you. Nearly 400
movies have been made from scripts and writers found on our site.
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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Oscars Success for McKee Alumni
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Every awards season,
McKee Seminar graduates are recognized as some of the best writers,
directors, producers and creative talents in the storytelling business.
This year was no exception, with 19 Oscar nominees having studied under
Robert McKee. Indeed, we congratulate the seven alumni who were
involved in scooping up the awards for Best Picture (CODA),
Best Animated Feature (ENCANTO)
and Best Director (Jane Campion - THE
POWER OF THE DOG).
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This flourishing collective already includes the winners
of over 75 Oscars, 250 Emmys, 50 DGA and 100 WGA awards.
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Renowned writing instructor Robert McKee brings his
legendary STORY Seminar back to Los Angeles and London this spring.
Don't miss the opportunity to join this growing class of celebrated
artists and change the course of your writing career. Give your story
the best possible chance to succeed.
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Hear from a few of McKee's OSCAR-WINNING
ALUMNI
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"Robert McKee is a tireless, passionate advocate of
Story arts. I wish I had taken his seminar before I started writing
'cut to' for a living."
WILLIAM
GOLDMAN
Academy
Award-Winning Screenwriter
BUTCH CASSIDY
& THE SUNDANCE KID
ALL THE
PRESIDENT'S MEN
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"Robert McKee is an essential thought leader when it
comes to story. His lessons are inspirational, illuminating, and useful
to me on a daily basis."
ED SAXON
Academy
Award-Winning Producer
THE SILENCE OF
THE LAMBS
PHILADELPHIA
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"Everybody who has to read a script for a
living--actors, directors, producers, writers--must take McKee's STORY
Seminar."
QUINCY JONES
Academy
Award-Winning Composer, Producer
THE COLOR PURPLE
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Nothing moves forward in a
story except through conflict."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Conflict is to
story what sound is to music. Both story and music are temporal arts,
and the single most difficult task of the temporal artist is to hook
and hold our interest, then carry us through time without an
awareness of its passage.
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Conflict
is more than an aesthetic principle; it is the soul of story.
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If a writer fails
to properly grasp the principle of conflict, they fail for one of two
reasons. Either their stories are a glut of meaningless and absurdly
violent struggles, or a vacancy of meaningful and honestly expressed
conflict.
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Life is about the
ultimate questions of finding love and self-worth, of bringing serenity
to inner chaos, of titanic social inequalities around us, of time
running out. Life is conflict. The writer must decide where and how to
orchestrate this struggle, with skill and precision, and use it to
propel their storytelling.
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Works
of art are driven by the conflict of life.
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"Robert McKee’s teachings are
timeless. Story principles are just the tip of the iceberg. He is a
master of human behavior and prepares us to deal with conflicts in any
context... He is bravely simple and extraordinarily relevant."
- JONI GALVAO
Plot Leader, THE
PLOT COMPANY
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A story isn't just
moments of activity, personality or emotion. Master storytellers must
seek events that contain all the above, whilst propelling their story
forward with conflict that will compel audiences to stay riveted from
fade in to fade out.
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Robert McKee returns to
the stage this spring to deliver his 3-day story masterclass. Join us
and learn to create tales that will hook, hold, and wow audiences for
years to come...
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Professional, Student and Repeater discounts available.
(Contact luke@storylogue.com for details.)
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How Conflict Drives Story
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In this quick
response to the question of a seminar attendee, Robert McKee reiterates
the relationship between story and the principle of conflict.
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"To me, when you have people
trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when
stories are the most interesting."
- JASON KATIMS
Writer, Producer
FRIDAY NIGHT
LIGHTS
MY SO-CALLED LIFE
ROSWELL
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Amateurs employ doubtful taste
and weaker judgment; professionals criticize their work severely, some
times excessively."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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What Would a Professional Writer Do?
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Professional
writers may or may not receive critical acclaim, but they are in
control of their craft, improving over the years and making a living
from the art. A struggling writer may, at times, produce quality, but
day-to-day they cannot consistently make their talent perform. The
difference between these two is simple.
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When a struggling
writer realizes a scene doesn’t work they make a coffee, or break
for lunch. In the afternoon, they’ll tinker with the scene, kill some
time on Youtube, before scrolling through their social media feeds.
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A professional writer writes and rewrites, putting
in the long, tough days, knowing that the road from day one to final
draft is never smooth, and rarely paved with cat videos.
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You must write every day, line by line, page by
page. And regardless of whether you make a living from your art, you
must be professional.
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Join your peers at
Robert McKee's STORY Seminar this spring and equip yourself with the
critical tools you need to bring your talent to bear on a daily basis.
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"McKee's book and seminar,
Story, changed the trajectory of my professional career, from a
novelist on her ninth book that wasn't going anywhere, to a published
novelist with a Miramax movie deal."
- ERICA FERENCIK
Author,
Screenwriter
THE RIVER AT
NIGHT / INTO THE JUNGLE
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LOS ANGELES
April
29 - May 1
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Robert McKee
explains why writers should not worry about chasing trends and awards,
but instead should focus on writing a good story.
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A Message from Our Friends at
Scriptapalooza
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Scriptapalooza Screenplay & Shorts
Competition
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Why enter the
Scriptapalooza Screenplay & Shorts Competition? We are one of the
longest running competitions in the world. Our number one priority has
always been the writer, which is the reason we use producers, agents
and managers to read every entry. We have industry professionals judge
because it creates another opportunity for the writer to get their
script in front of a decision maker.
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•
Over 90 producers reading
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$10K Grand Prize
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We promote and pitch the TOP 100 writers for a full year
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"The novice plunges ahead,
counting solely on experience, thinking the life he’s lived and the
stories he’s seen or read give him something to say and the way to say
it."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Why Desire Is Just the Start
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An
excerpt from Jack London’s letter to Jess Dorman, Oct. 26, 1914:
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"If you think
you can jump in right now, without any apprenticeship, and lay bricks
as well as a four, five or six years' apprenticed bricklayer; if you
think you can jump in on the floor and nail on shoes on ten horses as
well as a man who has served a three, four, or five years'
apprenticeship at shoeing horses on the floor; if you think you can
jump in and nail laths, or spread plaster, or do concrete work, without
previous experience, better or as well as the men who have served their
three, four, and five years of apprenticeship; - in short, if you think
that a vastly better-paid trade than that, namely, the writing-game,
can be achieved in your first short story not yet written, or long
story not yet written, why go ahead my boy and jump to it, and I'll pat
you on the back - pat you on the back! The world will crush you in for
the great genius that you are if you can do such a thing. In the
meantime have a little patience and learn the trade."
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Hundreds of
thousands of stories are written every year, but of these only a
handful are of real quality. Today’s new writers rush to the computer
without first learning their craft.
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The desire to create stories of lasting quality is not
enough. Writing tests the maturity and insight of the writer, her
knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. It demands both
vivid imagination and powerful analytical thought.
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But above all, as Jack London noted, it requires
learning the craft.
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"This was more than I bargained
for. New understanding, insight and inspiration with practical, USEABLE
tools. Excellent!"
- CAROL ROSCOE
Stage Director /
Actor / Professor
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Anxious writers obey rules. Rebellious writers break
rules.
Artists master the form.
Robert McKee’s STORY is
the only seminar of its kind, unlocking the universal and timeless form
of story and teaching you the essential elements you can use to elevate
your writing to the level of the masters. Join us this spring and
change the course of your writing career.
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LOS ANGELES
April
29 - May 1
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Why Study Is Essential For Writers
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Robert McKee
discusses the romanticism of creativity and teaches how destructive and
limiting it can be to a writer’s education.
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A Message from Our Friends at InkTip
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Whether you’re looking
for scripts or have some of your own, InkTip can help you. Nearly 400
movies have been made from scripts and writers found on our site.
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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