We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. - Robert McKee

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We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

Robert McKee

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A beautifully told story is a symphonic unity in which structure, setting, character, genre, and idea meld seamlessly. To find their harmony, the writer must study the elements of story as if they were instruments of an orchestra — first separately, then in concert.

Within the first pages of a screenplay a reader can judge the relative skill of the writer simply by noting how he handles exposition.

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. - Robert McKee

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