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Episode 448: Robert McKee

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What's the Difference Between a Story and a Character?

The brain as sort of a recorder of stories. Your book talks about the difference between people who sort of see story from driven to character driven. And sread of the history of what goes into those ideas. When you're in a real life experience and you are thinking about capturing it for future use in fiction, what are the details about character that you think are relevant? And what sensitivity does one need to understand? Like i've heard a lot of people in the show will talk about, you know, the surroundings the scene, but very few people have talk about capturing, like, what was happening in people's heads in real time,. and thinking through that when going throughit like a

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