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Episode 448: Robert McKee

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How Did You Become a Writer?

When i was six, my father invented a unique form of punishment. He had this gorgeous volume of aesop's fables with his magnificent colored plates. And he would have me copy out aesop’s fable plus the moral at the bottom in good penmanship. And then i would have to come to him in the living room and explain the fable to him and give him my interpretation of the moral. I just eat the moral, but my interpretation of what the story meant. When i didit, my father's eyes would light up, because i was impressing,. i and aate to impress your fathers significant and so ipbend ivebeen doing

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