Saving Cats, One Student at a Time
Our Guest Blogger is Cory Milles, who has been teaching for nearly a decade. In his spare time, he writes Young Adult novels that seek to entertain as well as resonate with his teen audience. When he’s not writing, teaching, or listening to his collection...
From the Best of Blake’s Blogs: “Back to the Drawing Board”
Every once in a while, we’ll re-post one of Blake’s inspirational blogs. This was first published on July 3, 2008. Sometimes the best thing we can do with an idea is… let it go! As a self-proclaimed “idea guy” l love my notebooks. I love...
Adapting to the Beat
Our thanks to Jeanne Veillette Bowerman for this brilliant and helpful guest blog. Jeanne is the Co-Founder and moderator of the weekly Twitter screenwriters’ chat, Scriptchat, and has a regular Script Magazine column entitled Balls of Steel. A graduate of Cornell University, she’s written several...
Write, Shoot, Repeat. (A Cautionary Tale)
Our gratitude to the team of Nicole Greevy and Todd Faulkner for this lesson-and-laugh-filled blog. Nicole is a writer, actor, and producer who co-created and appears in the supernatural comedy and web series, Exorcists Local 667, an Official Selection of the International Television Festival. Her...
Saving the World with Save the Cat!
Our thanks to Aaron Pope, Los Angeles-based writer/director and senior analyst for www.coverageink.com, for this guest blog on LIBERATOR, a very cool project he’s working on with his partner, Jim Cirile. Launching a new superhero franchise without source material is impossible. No question about it....
How Blake Made Me a Believer
Jenny Gardiner is the author of the award-winning novel Sleeping with Ward Cleaver; the memoir Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who’s Determined to Kill Me; the novels Slim to None and Over the Falls; and a contributor to the upcoming...
Erik Bork on ‘The Importance of Point of View’
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...
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...
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...
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