With full details of the seminar and recent Robert McKee newsletters:
McKee’s London STORY Seminar is Here!
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Master storytellers step
out from the crowd, selecting content, designing a form and delivering
like no one else. McKee’s STORY Seminar will lift your talent beyond
convention to create your own works of distinctive substance, structure
and style.
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LONDON
STORY SEMINAR
May 13 - May 15
Regent's
University London
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Professional, Student and Repeater discounts available.
(Contact luke@storylogue.com for details.)
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"Just wanted to say how much I
loved this past weekend. Thank you and all who made it possible for all
of us. I had attended 20 years ago, but really was able to absorb so
much knowing a bit of what I was in for."
- Mary
Gallagher
Writer
Los Angeles STORY
Seminar (Spring 2022)
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"A truly original story will
silence the audience, and lift them to another place."
- Robert
McKee
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How Writers Can Achieve Originality
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Story is not only
what you have to say, but how you say it. A truly unique author, no
matter the medium, is an artist with godlike expertise of their
subject, the creator of setting, character and story.
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It is a rare pleasure to open a story and immediately
surrender to the work, giving over emotion and concentration because
there is something ineffable between the lines that says: "This
writer knows."
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You also have the task of convincing the audience that
your world is authentic. You must strive to write stories so
compelling, the audience has no choice but to suspend cynicism and believe.
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When authorial
knowledge of setting and characters meets your personality, your work
becomes what you are. An original.
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Empower your craft, and
learn to create unique stories with Robert McKee.
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Combining Genres to Create an Original
Story
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Robert McKee
explains the benefits of combining genres as a tool to aid your
construction of an original script.
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"An original idea. That can't be
too hard. The library must be full of them."
- Stephen
Fry
Actor,
Presenter, Writer, Director
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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Los Angeles STORY Seminar - Spring
2022
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The McKee Team would like
to thank everyone who joined us for a wonderful weekend in Los Angeles.
Your engagement helped to create the kind of atmosphere that makes
these STORY Seminars so successful. It was great to see all the
networking going on, and to hear your personal stories about the impact
of Robert's teaching.
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There's now less
than two weeks until another group of creatives gathers for the
STORY Seminar in London. We look forward to meeting all the
first-timers, and to greeting more than a few familiar faces!
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Join us in
London this spring.
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LONDON
STORY SEMINAR
May 13 - May 15
Regent's
University London
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"I’m not being facetious when I
say that Aristotle himself didn’t do as deep and as fascinating a take
on dramatic (and comedic) character… Robert McKee is on the Mount
Rushmore of gifts from God for writers and artists of all kinds."
- STEVEN PRESSFIELD
Bestselling
Author
THE WAR OF ART
TURNING PRO
THE ARTIST'S JOURNEY
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Who Is Your Character, Really?
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"How does a writer express a
character’s true nature? Choices."
- Robert
McKee
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The ancient adage “Nothing
is what it seems” applies directly and deeply to character
creation.
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A character’s
public and personal personae combine to form the outer facade of who
she seems to be. Her private and hidden selves generate her true
character. When we first encounter a character we instinctively peer
past the surface, seeking an answer to the question we ask whenever we
meet someone new: “Who is this person, really?”
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True character can only
be expressed through choice in dilemma.
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What a character chooses to do in her lightest moments
expresses little, because they cost her little. But at her darkest,
when she’s up against powerful, negative forces, when risks are
greatest, her actions reveal the truth.
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We don’t know characters by what others say about them,
or by what they say about themselves. A character is the choices they
make over the course of their lifetime.
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Master the art of
character creation with Robert McKee.
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The Revelation of Character Dilemma
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Robert McKee
teaches how to handle character dilemma in relation to exposition and
what the audience should know.
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"Plot exists so the character
can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice
and action."
- John
Gardner
Writer
GRENDEL
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Beyond imagination and insight,
the most important component of talent is perseverance-the will to
write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Writing in Pursuit of Perfection
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Experience tells
us that 90 percent of everything we write will be mediocre at best. In
your search for quality, you must create far more material than you can
use, then cast most of it aside.
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Too many writers spend years working on ideas that were
never good enough to begin with. At some point you must be willing to
pull the plug and move onto your next story.
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In other words, you must have the taste and judgment to
decide whether a particular idea has potential. If a first draft
doesn’t really come to life, you must have the objectivity to ask
yourself if the inspiration at the heart of your story is worth pursuing.
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A writer secure in their talent knows there’s no limit
to what they can create. So you must trash everything less than your
best on your search for a gem-quality story.
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Set yourself a high bar, and commit
to perfection with Robert McKee this spring.
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If you can’t play all the
instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music is in your
imagination, you may be stuck humming the same tune. Empower your
command of the craft, and free yourself to express your original vision
at Robert McKee’s STORY Seminar.
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"Robert McKee is the only living
mentor capable of nurturing dramatic stories in any genre and medium
across a writing lifetime."
- JAMES MCCABE
Dr. of
Philosophy, University of Oxford
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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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Is it possible for
a writer to acquire taste? In this Q&A from the Storylogue archive,
Robert discusses the difficulty in remaining objective about your
writing.
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"Perfection is achieved, not
when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away."
- Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
Writer
THE LITTLE
PRINCE
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A Message from Our Friends at
Scriptapalooza
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Scriptapalooza Television Writing
Competition
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Scriptapalooza's
intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer.
There are four categories you can submit to, which include one hour
existing shows, ½ hour existing sitcom, original pilots, and reality
shows.
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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