Screenwriting Guru Robert McKee Demystifies Character and Structure
The No Film School Podcast
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The Influence of the Novel on Your Writing?
i was an actor director in the theatre but, you know, i read a hell of a lot more novels than i ever read plays. And when i sat down to do my dissertation, which which i never finished, because i turned it into my book instead, that wars ot ok, orword but and so really the genesis of it was trying to make a sense out of story in order to write a phd. Dissertationininsinima. But when i started, when i did research, starting with aristotle, then going through in orisonn two thousand years o, writing about writing, they all just merged. Because kot that old joke, about that old story
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