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Episode 448: Robert McKee

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Non Fiction Is Fiction to One Degree

Every belief that human beings have is an interprepretation of reality. The first thing the writer has to decide is, what gone is this? Is it a crime story? IsIt a love story? Is it family drama? Is it war story? A social drama about problems in society the need curing? And so non fiction is fiction to one degree. O heall stories are fiction. Let's even just say fictional films. Like, what does it change when the story has some basis in real people and real events? Wel, i can get away with murder in a way. Yo, know, its a biography, or even autobiography. Not everything has to make the same kind of

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