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...
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 Austin Screenwriting Beat Sheet Workshop — February 19-20 Screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez will be leading our Workshop in Austin, Texas. Al completed two Save the Cat! writing workshops with friend and mentor Blake Snyder in 2008 and 2009 and became a contributor to this site in 2009....
Today’s Guest Blogger is Alexander Volkov, a 35 year-old Russian screenwriter and the creator of the “Pogonya za Angelom (Runaway Angel)” TV series, which ran on one of the Russian major TV channels, NTV, and got the highest rating among all the projects of NTV channel in...
Every once in a while, we’ll reach into the archives for one of Blake Snyder’s inspirational blogs. The following was first published on March 17, 2008, after Blake spoke to a very large gathering at Disney Animation: I had the opportunity to speak to an...
This is the second of a series of blogs by Geoff Harris on the STC! principles and TV writing. Before becoming a freelance writer/producer, Geoff was Vice President in charge of Story and Writer Development at NBC, where he worked for 12 years. He also has...
We recently received this email from independent writer/director Dan Pavlik: I’m an independent writer/director. My screenwriting didn’t really start until I read STC! I then went back to the drawing board and co-crafted a 2008 Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist script. I emailed Blake with the news of my...
Today’s blog is written by Cat! Jennifer Chang, writer/producer of “Street Fighter High: The Musical.” One of the most refreshing things I learned from Blake was that there is no shame in writing solely with the goal to entertain. I loved how he saw entertainment...
In this week’s blog, Save the Cat! workshop alumni Alvaro Rodriguez and Melody Lopez discuss Robert Rodriguez’s explosive new action movie, Machete. Featuring an all-star cast including Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, and Michelle Rodriguez, Machete tells the story of an ex-Federale (Danny Trejo of...
Michael Buchanan writes: Hello from Atlanta, My co-author, Diane Lang, and I, along with director Jason Winn, wanted you to know how great an influence Blake and his principles had on our screenwriting and filmmaking. Save the Cat! is our bible for working on stories....
