{"id":646,"date":"2014-07-29T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.wordpress.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2014-07-29T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T09:55:38","slug":"how-do-i-know-if-my-story-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/how-do-i-know-if-my-story-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Know If My Story Is Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBlkPo_BknQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert McKee delivers a very important insight into knowing whether you have a good story or not, while also answering the question of when you should tell your story to someone else.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='one_half'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>A brief review of Luc Besson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2872732\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LUCY<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By nature, we all use 100% of our brain. It&#8217;s Luc Besson who uses only 10%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Robert McKee<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='one_half et_column_last'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4>This week&#8217;s featured article:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptshadow.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/screenwriting-article-storytelling-vs.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Storytelling vs. Writing&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Scriptshadow: &#8220;I recently caused a minor fracas by suggesting that screenwriters aren&#8217;t &#8220;writers,&#8221; per se, but rather &#8220;storytellers,&#8221; and that if you want to become a successful screenwriter, your focus should be on telling stories rather than writing. I&#8217;m afraid that some of you took me a little too literally and assumed I meant that there&#8217;s no actual &#8220;writing&#8221; involved in screenwriting&#8230;&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='clear'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee delivers a very important insight into knowing whether you have a good story or not, while also answering the question of when you should tell your story to someone else. &nbsp;<\/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":[48,29,50,52],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","tag-qa","tag-robert-mckee","tag-storylogue","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\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}