But when audiences or readers cannot believe as if, when they argue with the authenticity of your tale, they break out of the telling.
Indeed, all the beautiful and satisfying effects of story – suspense and empathy, tears and laughter, meaning and emotion – are rooted in the great as if. The magic of as if transports the reader/audience from their private world to your fictional world. This act allows the audience/reader to temporarily believe in your story world as if it were real. Or, more precisely, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous phrase, the audience/reader must willingly suspend its disbelief. The audience/reader must believe in the world of your story. Q: Does a story always need to be believable? What makes it believable? Why give your life to an idea that’s not worth your life? Talent and time are a writer’s only assets. Therefore, when inspiration sparks the desire to write, the artist immediately asks: Is this idea so fascinating, so rich in possibility, that I want to spend months, perhaps years, of my life in pursuit of its fulfillment? Is this concept so exciting that I will get up each morning with the hunger to write? Will this inspiration compel me to sacrifice all of life’s other pleasures in my quest to perfect its telling? If the answer is no, find another idea. Robert McKee: Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance-the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Q: What are the critical questions that a writer should be asking prior to crafting a story? Robert McKee recently took the time to answer several questions about writing, story, advice for writers and inspiration. In 2009 alone, McKee will be in LA, NY, London, Paris, Stockholm, Lisbon, Santiago, Vancouver, Acapulco…Like we said, McKee is a man on a mission. (A funny story from the seminar in New York not too long ago has Jimmy Fallon signing in as “Ted Danson.”)Īt 68, McKee continues to keep a torrid schedule of events. His classes also continue to attract A-List writers and celebs who usually go undetected amongst the crowd.
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McKee’s former students have written or co-written such commercially and critically successful films and TV shows as Wall*E (which received 6 Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay), Iron Man (two Academy Award nominations), Desperate Housewives,Hancock, Law & Order, CSI, The Lord of the Rings I-III, A Beautiful Mind, Nixon, Scrubs, The Daily Show, Grey’s Anatomy and more. Talk to people at the end of the three days and you’ll hear such reviews as “life altering,” “the most important education I’ve ever received” and “priceless.” If anything, it’s had the opposite effect as people pack theatres and auditoriums around the world to hear him speak. McKee released his bestselling book “STORY” in 1997, which, he thought at the time, may make taking the seminar unnecessary. Famously portrayed in the film Adaptation, McKee has been teaching the seminar for almost 25 years to over 50,000 students around the world. Over three intense, eleven-hour (!) days, McKee stalks the stage with the energy and enthusiasm of someone on a mission. They say taking Robert McKee’s 3-day Story Seminar is an experience like no other. ( As we come off Oscar weekend, here’s a great look into the timeless lessons of Hollywood screenwriting, from the master himself in this insight Q&A. Here’s an interview with Robert McKee, the God of Hollywood screenwriting – big ups to my buddy Seth Kahan for getting permission to share this interview.
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