Preview - Dialogue Sample

Announcing Storylogue

StoryLogue is Robert McKee's ongoing, online arena for writers. McKee designed this website to enhance the skills of writers from all storytelling media - prose, television, theatre, film, journalism, documentary, graphic novel, advertising, and the like. In addition, StoryLogue embraces all story genres, whether character driven or action driven, from Romance to War Story, from Adult Drama to Teen Farce, from traditional Broadway Musical to avant-garde post-Modern Novel.

StoryLogue provides four major services:

1. Weekly Lessons
2. Weekly Interviews
3. Daily Q & A
4. Networking Rooms

WEEKLY LESSONS: Over the years, readers of McKee's bestseller, Story, along with the many thousands of attendees of his seminars, have asked for more of McKee's unique insights into the craft of writing and the art of storytelling. With StoryLogue, McKee will supply that demand. Drawing on insights he has gained over his past three decades of working consultations with many of the finest authors for page, stage or screen, McKee has developed advanced, in-depth lessons on subjects such as Character Design, Framing Devices, Dialogue as Trialogue, and dozens more. StoryLogue's web center interconnects McKee with hard-working writers from all story disciplines around the world, and then presents these original and advanced studies in a new, cutting-edge format. Even for non-traditional media -- reality shows, computer-generated animation, online web programming and gaming -- these new lessons will be essential to creating emotionally satisfying works.

WEEKLY INTERVIEWS: Each week StoryLogue brings Robert McKee together with a renowned writer, publisher, director, editor, actor, producer, or agent from the worlds of print, performance and screen. McKee and his guest engage in dynamic, on-location, face-to-face interviews that explore both sides of the artist's life -- creativity and career building. McKee's astute questioning guides these highly successful professionals to open storehouses of knowledge and technique hidden deep within them. And as these weekly exchanges demystify and clarify the methods and business of the story arts, StoryLogue members gain first hand insight into exactly how artists do what they do, and how service professionals then take their works to the public.

Some of the questions in the interview segments include:

• How can a writer overcome paralyzing fear or creative stagnation?
• What are the productive daily writing habits of successful writers?
• How does a writer break down a novel in order to adapt it to the screen or stage?
• What makes a producer or publisher reject a submission?
• How can writers control the performance of their work after selling it for production on stage or screen?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of a large talent agency versus a boutique agency?
• What do literary agents look for in a submission?
• What steps do agents take to maximize the writer's salability?
• When creating television pilot, how many future episodes does the writer need to outline?

DAILY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: As Robert McKee travels his Story Seminars around the world, StoryLogue records on-camera questions from his attendees. McKee gathers the most thought-provoking of these writing problems, researches their most effective solutions, and answers a new question every day, at length, five days a week throughout out the year. These answers not only help the particular questioner, but they instruct and enlighten all other writers who have puzzled over similar dilemmas. In addition to questions taped at McKee's Seminars, StoryLogue will field questions sent through its Facebook and email.