BJ Markel
BJ Markel first worked with Blake Snyder in 1986. He edited Blake's three Save the Cat! books and co-founded Blake Snyder Enterprises, LLC with Blake in 2005. In his other life, BJ worked in video acquisitions and entertainment marketing, including 20 years at the Walt Disney Company.
The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet: A Bridge to Story
R. L. LaFevers (Robin Lorraine when she’s in really big trouble) is the author of over 14 books for young readers, including Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which received starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Booksense Summer...
Adam Levenberg: Do You Need a Consultant?
Our frank friend, Adam Levenberg, is a former development executive who consults on feature film projects for top producers, actors, and screenwriters. His first book, The Starter Screenplay — the ultimate resource to help you determine “what should I write next?” — is available now...
Announcing Our First Novel-Writing Beat Sheet Workshop
Learn how the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet can be applied successfully to fiction. The legion of novel writers who use the Beat Sheet includes Alyson Noël, Nina Bruhns, Kristan Higgins, Marilyn Brandt, Kieran Kramer… and Jessica Brody, who has sold 8 novels (4 optioned for...
Embracing My Crazy Stupid Scary
Today’s Guest Blogger is Hope Tarr, the award-winning author of 15 historical and contemporary romance novels as well as a Co-Founder of Lady Jane’s Salon, New York City’s first (and so far only) monthly romance reading series. Forty-Three Is Too Old for a Fifth Floor Walk-Up...
4 Years, 3 Presidents, 2 Writers, and 1 Big Idea
Our Guest Blogger, Michael Kurinsky, worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation for 9 years as a background painter until 2004, when he joined Sony Pictures Animation and later served as a Visual Development Artist on the 2006 release, Open Season. Michael art directed Sony’s 2009...
The Beats Go On
Today’s guest blogger is Master Cat! Anne Lower. Anne has worked as a consultant for STC! and is a writer in Los Angeles. This is the first of a series of blogs in which Anne takes a look at some of the individual beats of...
True Grit Beat Sheet
Master Cat! Ben Frahm contributes the beat sheet for this Academy-Award nominated film. Screenplay by: Joel and Ethan Cohen Based on the novel by Charles Portis (Also, see the 1969 True Grit directed by Henry Hathaway). Genre: GOLDEN FLEECE: EPIC FLEECE Logline: A young stubborn...
From the Best of Blake’s Blogs: For the Love of Writing — And Writing of Love
Every once in a while, we’ll re-post one of Blake’s inspirational blogs. This was first published on July 31, 2008. Needless to say, it still resonates. I will be speaking this weekend at the Romance Writers of America conference in San Francisco. I’ve been literally...
The Kids Are All Right Beat Sheet
Our guest blogger, Erik Bork, is best known for his work as a writer-producer on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon, for which he won two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards. He has also written original pilots...
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