{"id":632,"date":"2014-04-29T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.wordpress.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2014-04-29T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:00:26","slug":"how-can-i-write-a-timeless-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/how-can-i-write-a-timeless-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Write a Timeless Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g7Tn9WgH-uU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert McKee responds to a question about consciously trying to write a classic, and discusses whether approaching your writing in that way is worthwhile.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>A few suggestions\u00a0about how to write from other writers:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every good storyteller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning and concludes with the middle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The writer&#8217;s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee responds to a question about consciously trying to write a classic, and discusses whether approaching your writing in that way is worthwhile. &nbsp; A few suggestions\u00a0about how to write from other writers: &#8220;Every good storyteller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning and concludes with the middle.&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[53,48,29,52],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","tag-commercial-success","tag-qa","tag-robert-mckee","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}