Sublime

By choice or accident; there are no other means.

You must shape your story in a way that both expresses your vision and satisfies the audience’s desires.

The story’s ultimate event is the writer’s ultimate task.

‘home’ is threatened the protagonist suffers from some kind of flaw or problem the protagonist goes on a journey to find a cure or the key to the problem exactly halfway through they find a cure or key on the journey back they’re forced to face up to the consequences of taking it they face some kind of literal or metaphorical death They’re reborn a

Life is dialogue, action/reaction.

I’d have to learn to reliably deliver one great speech. I’d need to use the few gigs in the first half of 2014 to generate new leads for the second half of the year. I needed to turn my first gigs into next gigs.

McKee goes on to say that stories can be revealed by asking a few key questions: What does my protagonist want in order to restore balance in his or her life? What is the core need? What is keeping my protagonist from achieving his or her desire? How would my protagonist decide to act in order to achieve his or her desire in the face of those antag

BE CONSISTENT.

In a story, audiences must always know who the hero is, what the hero wants, who the hero has to defeat to get what they want, what tragic thing will happen if the hero doesn’t win, and what wonderful thing will happen if they do.