Robert McKeeStory is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
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Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Story is a metaphor we tell ourselves in order to make sense of our plights and our actions in the world. Story is a way of giving meaning and value to what we experience and how we experience it. It’s about how we speak to ourselves about our lives, about what we do, and what we will do next.
Story is the container that all of our experiences live or die inside of. The story can be something as simple as a book or a screenplay or it may be a novel, a play, a poem, a film, a song.
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, And The Principles Of Screenwriting
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