Robert McKee: Quintessential Guru of Storytelling

Robert McKee is the quintessential “guru” of storytelling. He is an author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his "Story Seminar" which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee also has the blog and online writers' resource "Storylogue".

Robert McKee's "Story Seminars" have been held around the world. I was fortunate to attend the three-day Story Seminar in Los Angeles in 2019. Mr. McKee’s instruction is incredibly in-depth. During the three-day seminar, he taught writers the principles of storytelling. While his one-day "Genre Seminars" teach writers the conventions of different styles of storytelling.

I would be amiss if I did not give a huge shout out and thank you to Robert McKee. The Shred Games story would not have been crafted to the level that it has had it not been for the influence of Robert McKee’s Story Seminar.  And although I do only know him through his seminar, his gift of teaching this craft of writing for screen and stage is one of the best disciplines a dedicated writer could ever put themselves through.

As a Fulbright Scholar, McKee joined the faculty of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1983, where he began offering his STORY Seminar class. A year later, McKee opened the course to the public, giving a three-day, 30-hour intensive class to sold-out audiences around the world.

Since 1984, more than 50,000 students have taken McKee's course in cities around the world: Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Helsinki, Oslo, Munich, Tel Aviv, Auckland, Singapore, Barcelona, Stockholm, São Paulo and more.

Thank you, Robert McKee.

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