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Robert Mckee on the Power of Storytelling

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Variety of Storytelling

There are 16 principal genres, and they all have a core cast that we know. The excitement is the core emotion of action. Nobody's about to invent a whole new fundamental form of storytelling after 4,000 years of storytelling. So the test is, can I take this form and with research and imagination, find a new setting for it?

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