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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Ah wasn't aware of this book, thanks! We oughta start a narrative structure project at YC at some point.
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Hmm thinking what that would like - looking into prominent narrative structures and repetitions across different eras could be a fruitful one .
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