Salva Rubio’s 15 Beats of Success
Our guest blogger, Salva Rubio, is a Spanish author and screenwriter. After reading Save the Cat!, the first script he ever wrote, Saborafuego, was optioned, and he is currently hired to develop three more films. He has published essays, a comic book, and his first...
Does Structure Change with Changing Platforms?
Naomi Beaty is a script reader/consultant based in Los Angeles. One of the original Cats, Naomi worked in development at Maverick Films and contributed her wisdom and insights during the writing of STC! books 2 & 3. Naomi can be reached at [email protected]. In Gladwellian...
Writing for a Genre That Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
How Hilary Weisman Graham used "Save the Cat!" to sell screenplays and a novel.
From the Best of Blake’s Blogs: “The Shard of Glass”
This blog was originally posted on June 22, 2009. Lately, I have been talking a lot about the “death moment” of a script. In the script consultations I do, and in class talking with groups of writers, the “All Is Lost” moment on page 75...
“Blake’s First Law of Writing”
Our guest blogger, Rick DeMille, is a former missionary and former Marine who has worked in the computer industry and began writing a few years ago. His novel Hellfire has been published and he’s working feverishly on its sequel Coyote Midnight, along with a screenplay and...
Blake’s Script Frenzy Blog on the Midpoint
In 2008, just before he began writing his third book, Blake Snyder wrote a blog for the wonderful folks at Script Frenzy, entitled MIDPOINT – THE KEY TO CRACKING ANY STORY. In celebration of the current Script Frenzy — taking place soon, we’re proud to republish...
Logline: The Story of You
By now you probably recognize Mike Rinaldi as one of our esteemed Save the Cat! Forum moderators. Besides screenwriting, script consulting, and teaching, Mike has worked in various capacities of production on commercials, music videos, and several feature films. Expect to see Not that Funny...
Using the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet in the Classroom
Our thanks to guest blogger Cory Milles, who has been teaching writing for nearly a decade. In his spare time, he writes Young Adult novels that seek to capture the power of story to transform his readers, and recently finished writing his fourth YA novel, tentatively...
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