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The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page and Game
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This book is ideal for writers and storytellers seeking to enhance their skills in crafting action stories with strong plots and originality. It is a must-have reference for authors, screenwriters, and students of creative writing focused on the action genre.
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From the master of STORY, DIALOGUE, and CHARACTER, Action offers writers the keys to powerful storytelling. Action explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that stands apart from all others.
In collaboration with former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by analysing the action genre. The book highlights the challenges and, more importantly, shows how to master the demands of plot creation through innovation and ingenuity.
Action is a must-have addition to the McKee storytelling oeuvre.
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ISBN: 9780413778505
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen & Co
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
ROBERT McKEE, Fulbright scholar, is the world's most sought-after author and lecturer known for his seminars and webinars that provide writers with crucial insight on the story universe. His writing seminars have earned him an international reputation. The cornerstones of his teaching are Story, Dialogue, Character and Storynomics. Translated into twenty-three languages, these singular works have defined how we talk about the art of storytelling. Over the last thirty-five years, he has mentored screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors. The list of McKee alumni includes the winners of over sixty Academy Awards, two hundred Emmy Awards, and one hundred Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as recipients of the Pulitzer, Booker, Olivier, and other major prose and playwriting prizes; BASSIM EL-WAKIL has worked closely with Robert McKee for over a decade, as an author and lecturer. Acknowledged as an expert on all forms of story structure and genre, he has a personal love for Action, Crime, Fantasy, and the long-form serials of television and comic books. His podcasts, The Story Toolkit and The Writer's Jihad, are available on all major podcast platforms.
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