Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting

Screenwriting teacher and Hollywood guru Robert McKee offers a systematic approach to storytelling. He suggests abandoning the set of plots and creating a dramatic structure: choose a hero, among many events, find the most important one that disrupts the order of things, move on to overcome obstacles, bring things to a crisis, show how the hero decides, perhaps, on the only right step and starts a...