Best of Blake’s Blogs: Inspiration for the New Year
It takes about 10,000 hours at a particular skill – like writing – before you start to get good at it.
Best of Blake: Why Clear Story Structure = Clear Thinking
This blog was originally posted on April 16, 2009. If we can tell a story well, we can communicate on every level in a quicker, more effective way! One thing I hear from audiences I get to speak to, from writers in class or in…
Best of Blake: Act Zero
Deciding what is important in any story we tell—no matter how we tell it—is the writer’s job.
Best of Blake: The Checklist
Blake Snyder reveals the checklist writers can reference to see what makes a successful story.
Best of Blake! Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder Explains His Genres
The components of his story types
Blake Snyder’s Happy New Year Message
Blake Snyder’s motivating message and timeless inspirational thoughts for writers.
Best of Blake: 10 Tips on Writing Horror
Ten exercises to develop your Monster in the House horror story.
Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder on Your Pitch and Logline
In this podcast, Blake Snyder discusses your idea — and how to express it in an effective pitch and logline
Best of Blake: Be Bold
How to look at our fears, and face them, so that we can be bold in our writing… and in life!
Do the Right Thing Beat Sheet
See how Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” hits Blake Snyder’s 15 story beats.
