Robert McKee is the Antoine Jomini of storytelling. No notion of strategic intuition informs the theory. It’s pure tactical prowess extrapolated to strategy via brute-force structural scaffolding.
Is there a storytelling Clausewitz or Boyd?
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There are tons of Boyds, getting inside the reader's reaction loop is a core suspense methodology.
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I don’t mean natural practitioners. I mean natural practitioners with the self-awareness to model and teach what they do. Much rarer by orders of magnitude.

