Story summary part 0

Ok I’ve just read Story by Robert McKee in preparation of either rehashing my existing unpublished novel Surface to Air or as scary as it is starting on a new novel from scratch….

When I was reading the book I stuck in a little coloured page marker whenever something made sense, gave me a lesson if you will or a moment of understanding perhaps clarity about what’s important in creating a Story that crackles with a life of it’s own and infects your audience in a way you’d never dared dream of.

My intent then is to create a series of posts under the categegory of Story in this blog that will become my summary of what I got out of Mr MG’s (as I’ll now refer to him) well reknowned book; Story – Substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting.

I hope it works for both those readers that have both read his work and those that haven’t. To get your juices following here is a scene from the film Adaptation where the main character played by Nicholas Cage goes to an infamous Robert McKee seminar. It’s a brilliant little insight into writer, guru… hope you enjoy this and my coming posts on Story.

Dave.