Action : The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game

From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.

ACTION explorestheways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war oncliches. Teaming up with the former co-host ofThe Story Toolkit,Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.

Topics include:

• Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action
• Creating the Action Cast
• Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action
• The Action Macguffin
• Action Set Pieces
• The Sixteen Action Subgenres

A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including:Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga,Dark Knight,The Matrix,andAvengers: Endgame.