Story is a book in which McKee describes in detail all aspects of the writing process from principles in writing a successful story to industry and a writer being successful within the field.
While I found a lot of the book went over my head, some of the points in the book made it through this thick skull of mine.
Reading made it clear that I had been going about this part of my project the wrong way.
When it comes to writing stories I only ever get so far because I try to come up with a situation and create a character to be stuck in it. Mckee talks about working from the inside out, creating characters then building their universes around them. However all aspects of creating a story must be considered together
Part 2: The Elements of Story and Part 3: The Principles of Story Design are particularly enlightening when trying to get started on building the universe around the characters. Reading these has given me new aspects to go about creating characters, worlds and introduced me to the idea of levels of conflict. This is an aspect of story telling that in the past I have neglected or not even considered in the past.
Another term I have been introduced to through this book are beats within scenes and stories. The points at which events happen within any story that give the characters something to react to in order to move the story forward.
When looking for ways to make these ideas I have taken from McKee's writing into visual story telling I have come across a set of Gnomon Workshop DVD's Visual Storytelling with Ian McCaig.
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