# Combining Storyforms **URL:** \ **Category:** Writing\ **Created:** [March 17, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931 "2017-03-17T12:12:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chuntley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/chuntley/32/83_2.png) [@chuntley](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/chuntley)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/21 "2017-04-11T22:58:56Z")
That is an understatement. ---
**Author:** ![narrativebeast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/narrativebeast/32/265_2.png) [@narrativebeast](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/narrativebeast)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/22 "2017-04-12T00:18:41Z")
Did Mckee’s emotional state move from a positive to a negative? Good scene work. ---
**Author:** ![jassnip](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/jassnip/32/452_2.png) [@jassnip](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/jassnip)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/23 "2017-04-12T04:23:59Z")
Damn, now that’s a story I want to hear. Let me guess…he was stuck in Fixed Attitude? ---
**Author:** ![Khodu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/khodu/32/2795_2.png) [@Khodu](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Khodu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/24 "2017-04-12T09:06:46Z")
Oh my! 😆 He had an Issue of: Security. (for his paradigm and reputation no less). I’ve heard great things but never studied his theory. I had studied Truby extensively. Then K.M Weiland. She mentions DRAMATICA in her character arc book and that’s where I learned about you guys. You know what lemme start that thread. ---
**Author:** ![JBarker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/jbarker/32/10_2.png) [@JBarker](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/JBarker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/25 "2017-04-12T12:18:22Z")
I have to admit, when I attended McKee’s seminar back in 2002 while living in Las Vegas, I made it through the first-morning session on Friday and then I was outta there. He’s a captivating speaker, but he was literally speaking word for word from his book which (thankfully) lacked a certain tone you hear in person if you know what I mean. Even then, I would have stayed but the biggest, no-can-do issue for me was there was no way in hell my 6’4" 240lbs frame was going to squeeze into a cramped lecture hall seat for three days straight. ---
**Author:** ![Lulz4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/lulz4/32/407_2.png) [@Lulz4](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Lulz4)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931/26 "2017-07-08T02:29:44Z")
**SPOILER** Just adding a reference… one of my favorite novel’s is Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash… there are two MCs: one is called Hiro Protagonist, who may or may not be a hero, and who is steadfast in his stunted emotional growth throughout the story; being exactly the same person at the end of the story… and the other MC is called YT, which stands for Yours Truly, who may or may not be a hero, but she definitely evolves emotionally in the end, though even this is subtle. I think of them as the anti-hero (or neutral hero) and as the actual hero, respectively. The story is interwoven and although the two work together in a few scenes, they are almost always apart, with the story flapping back and forth. The novel is long, about 400 pages. [Previous page](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/combining-storyforms/931.md?page=1)