{"id":8020,"date":"2020-05-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:42:15","slug":"nothing-moves-forward-except-through-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/nothing-moves-forward-except-through-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Moves Forward Except Through Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Q&amp;A: Nothing Moves Forward Except Through Conflict\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wbzh2luHC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert McKee explains why conflict is the heart of story. <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Quotes of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; George Orwell<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Writing is turning one&#8217;s worst moments into money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; J.P. Donleavy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee explains why conflict is the heart of story. &nbsp; Quotes of the Week &#8220;Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","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\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}