With details of all the latest seminars, here are the latest Robert McKee newsletters:
Robert McKee's STORY + LOVE STORY
Seminars
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Only 1 month to go until our Los
Angeles Seminars!
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( STORY )
October
6-8
In an intense three
days, McKee's legendary seminar teaches the substance, structure, style
and principles of Story. Learn how to apply classical story design –
the kind that has resulted in masterpieces of all kinds – to your own
cinematic, theatrical or literary premise.
Learn more...
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( LOVE STORY )
October
9
In the only seminar
on the romance genre offered this year, McKee teaches the psychology,
codes and conventions of the Love Story. Robert offers a lifetime of
narrative insight into a story form that continues to drive publication
and performance across stage, page and screen.
Learn more...
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Save 10% when you register for both
seminars.
To support your
commitment to the craft, we're offering a bundle discount when you
register for both the Los Angeles STORY and LOVE STORY seminars. If you've already enrolled in
only one seminar and want to upgrade your registration, we're happy to
assist you with adding the additional seminar so that you can benefit
from this deal.
Professional, Student and
Repeater discounts are also available.
(Contact
us for details.)
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Special Room Rates Available
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Only 3 weeks left to book with the
discounted rate!
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We have organized a
special discounted room rate for those looking to stay at the venue
itself during the seminar. This includes free WiFi access and
discounted parking. Rates are subject to availability and are valid
until September 23.
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A Few Words From McKee Alumni
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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
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"Robert is the man who, for better or for
worse, taught me how to do this thing. I am eternally grateful. I give
him full credit for the good ones and I take full responsibility for
the bad ones."
Akiva Goldsman
Academy
Award-winning Screenwriter and Producer
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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
Emmy, Grammy,
Oscar and Tony Award-winning Artist, Composer and Producer
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"A culture cannot evolve without
honest, powerful storytelling. We need true satires and tragedies,
dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of
the human psyche and society."
- Robert
McKee
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Why Audiences Need Your Stories
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Society has never been
more fragmented. People are clustering, depending on their worldview,
and becoming entrenched to the point they will no longer even speak to
those with differing opinions. The disintegration and relativization of
values in contemporary society is so blurring that people desperately
need to make sense out of life.
So audiences turn to story.
Writers transform
day-to-day chaos and the struggles of humanity into works of art. They
are life poets, creating metaphors that say "life is like this."
Today, the writer has to
be a philosopher of a kind the world has never needed before. You must
try to make sense out of a chaos the likes of which has never been
faced.
What the world asks of
you is courage.
Courage to risk
rejection, ridicule and failure as you follow the quest for stories
told with meaning and beauty. You alone have the tools to craft the
vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to
make sense out of the anarchy of existence.
Story is metaphor for
life, and life is conflict. That is its nature. And now, more than
ever, the world needs your stories. In a world of lies and liars, we
don’t need writers adding to the slop. More than ever, the world needs
to hear your truth.
Join Robert McKee this
fall as he returns to Los Angeles, New York and London with his iconic
STORY Seminar, and discover what it takes to create a true work of art.
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"Thank you so much for my
inspirational three days in London. McKee’s knowledge, experience and
emotional energy are a rare blend. I am resolved to write the
truth!"
- Andy
Sargent
London STORY
Seminar (Spring 2022)
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Making Sense of Your Story
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Robert McKee
teaches how, in spite of the world making less and less sense, writers
can still create a meaningful story.
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"Narrative becomes the way you
make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only
reason you should ever try this writing job."
- Denis
Lehane
Author
MYSTIC RIVER
GONE BABY GONE
SHUTTER ISLAND
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A Message From Scriptapalooza
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Scriptapalooza TV Competition
Accepting dramas,
sitcoms, pilots, and reality shows.
Whether you are already
an aspiring television writer or a writer interested in exploring other
avenues, Scriptapalooza TV is here to promote careers in television and
provide exposure for the undiscovered writer. Numerous writers have
gotten agents, managers and meetings.
WE DISCOVER, WE DEVELOP,
WE PROMOTE TV WRITERS.
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New to the McKee Collection!
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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We're pleased to bring you this opportunity
from our friends at Stage 32.
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The McKee Team
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McKee Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323 
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"Up until ten years ago, Hamlet
was considered the most complex character ever written. But long-form
storytelling has forever altered audience expectation."
- Robert
McKee
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The Unrivaled Scope of Television
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Long-form television is a
unique art form, as different from film as the theatre is from the
novel.
All storytelling
media—from the compact telling of short stories, one-act plays, and
short films to the full-length works of opera, feature film and
novel—express their tales in words, images or a combination of both,
over layers of ineffable subtext.
Long-form storytelling,
however, has an enormous advantage over other media. With the potential
to tell a story over dozens of hours, television can take the art of
story into depths, breadths and complexities beyond the scope of any
other medium.
Multi-season television
tests the very limits of insight, memory and human feeling.
No matter how hard other
writers may work, or how great their talent, they can’t achieve the
complexity of series such as BREAKING BAD or THE SOPRANOS because there
isn’t time. Television writers have an opportunity to develop a density
of complication that no film has the chance to do.
The creators of long-form
series are modern day epic poets.
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2022 New York TV SERIES Day
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For the first time in three years, award-winning
screenwriting instructor Robert McKee returns to New York, bringing
with him the legendary 3-day STORY Seminar, his acclaimed and updated
TV SERIES Day, and almost 4 decades worth of storytelling mastery.
Discover if you have what
it takes to become a visionary writer for television with Robert McKee
this fall.
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"Robert McKee’s techniques of
deconstructing genre, particularly the core values that change from
plot to plot, offer an invaluable insight into how to construct and
break a multi-layered television show with complex characters from
start to finish."
- MATEJA
BOŽIČEVIĆ
TV Screenwriter
Marvel's
DAREDEVIL
SNOWPIERCER
CARNIVAL ROW
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Robert McKee
teaches how far in advance a writer might plan their long-form story
arc.
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"Television in the last few
years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what
indie film used to be."
- Jeff
Daniels
Emmy
Award-winning Actor
THE NEWSROOM
GODLESS
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New to the McKee Collection!
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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ACTION:
The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game
ON SALE
SEPTEMBER 6TH
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Does Your Story Pack Enough Punch?
Action, because of
its popularity, has become one of the most demanding storytelling
genres, with originality its greatest challenge. In the last century
alone, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of iterations have played
out across page, screen, and game. Clichés litter its landscape. Like
the prolific genres of Crime and Horror, the immense volume of Action
writing has brought it to the saturation point.
How can today’s
author invent an Action sequence tomorrow’s fans haven’t seen or read ad
infinitum in the past? How can the modern writer win the ancient
war on clichés? How can you create not just a good Action story but a great
one?
ACTION: The Art
of Excitement illuminates the
challenges of the genre and demonstrates how to master the demands of
the action plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.
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What Action Writers Are Saying About ACTION
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"Robert McKee’s
books offer lucid analysis, perceptive insights, and fruitful
challenges to those of us who practice the magical arts of
storytelling. I highly recommend his latest, ACTION. Buy it, read it,
put it to work!"
- MICHAEL HIRST
Creator, Screenwriter & Producer
Emmy-winning series VIKINGS
New EPIX series BILLY
THE KID
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Your audience’s full
psychological involvement comes not from the protagonist alone, but
from the tensions between resemblances and differences among all cast
members."
- Robert
McKee
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Why Character Differences Are Crucial
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A character’s core self
is never the sole determiner of her fate. People impact one another,
and so we design stories around links and oppositions that define each
character’s qualities. Within these conjoined yet contrasted dealings,
a cast forms.
Every cast member draws
traits and insights out of every other cast member she encounters.
Inside a well-formed
cast, traits and dimensions create counterpoints that distinguish each
character from every other character. While interacting within scenes,
or talking or thinking about each other in separate scenes, roles
reveal and clarify each other by contrast and contradiction.
Just because a character
appears in your imagination doesn’t mean she’s earned a place in your
cast. Each role must play a part in a deliberate creative strategy to
enhance the storytelling. As you write, compare and contrast your
characters, arrange similarities and differences, create patterns only
you can see. Your protagonist may be lost in a maze of social and
personal relationships, but you must know where they are going.
Learn to maximize your
protagonist with their surrounding cast at Robert McKee’s STORY Seminar
this fall.
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"I wish I had taken Robert’s
classes much earlier in my writing process. It gave me a plethora of
material to reflect on for developing story and characters—WOW!."
- Cheryl
Willis
CHARACTER
Webinar Series Attendee
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Creating Character Dimensions In Your
Cast
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Robert McKee
teaches the principle of character dimensions and how to develop them
in your cast.
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"The three things that matter
most in a story are characters, characters and characters."
- Bob
Gale
Screenwriter /
Producer / Director
BACK TO THE
FUTURE: Parts 1, 2 & 3
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New to the McKee Collection!
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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 comedy writer says: under
the best of circumstances, human beings will find some way to screw
up."
- Robert
McKee
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Do You Have a Comic Mind?
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The comic mind is a smart
mind. The comedy writer cannot ignore the villainy, absurdity and
stupidity that surrounds them. But comedians know that if you harangue
people with how awful the world is, no one will listen to you.
Instead, comics observe
the hypocrisy, cruelty and greed rife in social institutions, and
social behavior, and go on the offensive, reacting with anger, but
attacking with wit.
Other people may live in
pain but deny it. The comic mind, on the other hand, lives in pain, but
has the courage to express it.
The comic mind has the moral
strength to see life as it is, and use their art to wake us up to
what is right and sane. The comic mind tells the truth.
Above all, the comic mind
loves laughter. It may rail against the dark side of humanity, but it
revels in the joy of the art form.
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Master the purity of the genre at McKee’s Comedy Day this
fall.
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The fall season
kicks off in just two months with 3-day STORY seminars in Los Angeles,
New York and London, but the only Comedy Day
seminar of the year will be held in London
on November 6. Don't miss your chance to join Robert McKee as he
dives deep into the nature, principles and structure of this pointed
genre.
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"Robert McKee's techniques of
deconstructing genre, particularly the core values that change from
plot to plot, offer invaluable insight."
- Mateja
Božičević
TV & Film
Writer (Amazon)
Marvel's
DAREDEVIL
SNOWPIERCER
CARNIVAL ROW
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Professional, Student, and Repeater
discounts available.
(Contact us for details.)
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In this Q&A
from the Storylogue archive, Robert McKee teaches the comedic principle
of blind obsessions.
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"This world is a comedy to those
that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
- Horace
Walpole
English Writer
THE CASTLE OF
OTRANTO
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New to the McKee Collection!
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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 psychology of love is
complex and riddled with contradictions."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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What Beats at the Heart of Love Stories?
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An
excerpt from Robert McKee’s Love Story Webinar Series
“As a writer, your first
step towards understanding the psychology of love is to recognize the
mind’s tendency to idealize all of life’s basic struggles. We
simultaneously strive for necessities such as food, warmth and shelter,
while championing nouvelle cuisine, haute couture and Architecture
Digest.
It’s this same
contradiction that frames our relationship with love. To cope with the
eternal struggle for love, humans veil the war of attraction with
romance. The hunt for a partner inspires extravagant dreams. Everyone
develops an idealized love story in childhood and holds onto that tale
subconsciously within their secret self.
But what is love?
The scientific answer
always matches what the scientist already believes. In order to sort
the real from the ideal, you must first understand that genuine love
has three core components: desire,
commitment, and intimacy. Mastering the
relationship between these elements is key to creating love stories
that will resonate with your audience.”
Learn
more about the complex psychology that lies at the heart of love stories
in Robert McKee’s upcoming Love Story Day
seminar.
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"Mr. McKee is a talented
teacher with a superior command of his subject matter, along with an
in-depth understanding of the human condition."
- John
Garrison
Psychologist
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McKee brings his
acclaimed Love Story Day
exclusively to Los Angeles on October 9. This one-day
masterclass teaches the history and psychology of love, the
storytelling principles involved in crafting a love story, and how you
can mix and merge genres to create a truly unique work of art.
Join
Robert this fall in Los Angeles, New York and London for his 3-day STORY and accompanying 1-day GENRE
seminars.
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Professional, Student, and Repeater
discounts available.
(Contact us for details.)
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Writing Your Own Love Story
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Robert McKee
teaches the objectivity and insight needed to write a love story
inspired by your own experience.
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"You know you're in love when
you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your
dreams."
- Dr.
Seuss
Author,
Illustrator
THE CAT IN THE
HAT
HOW THE GRINCH
STOLE CHRISTMAS
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McKee Seminars | Two
Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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