Here’s Johnny… I have been on tour for the last week “bringin’ the Cat!” to the Chicago area. It’s nice to be back in the blogosphere — please excuse the delay. Had a great book signing at Borders in Deerfield on Friday night. Wow! What…
Here is a great article from the LA Times, spotted by Jim Nakahama. It presents an alternate “Auteur Theory” — that being one that says maybe it’s the screenwriter who should be given the credit as a film’s “creator.” The pros and cons on this…
“Did you know they’re using your book at _______?” This information was whispered to me the other day to let me know that Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need is now officially in use at the studio level. I was…
Every once in a while we aspiring screenwriters question our methods. If Hollywood is making a lot of “high concept” movies that fail, is the high concept movie dead? And in a world that is changing, where movies might soon be seen on iPods instead…
Those new to this site and the Save the Cat! oeuvre, will no doubt wonder what The Board is. We have a couple of pictures posted of smiling seminar students in front of their Boards, and what a happy bunch they are! The Board is…
One of the key resources of this website will be the creation and categorizing of beat sheets! These handy tools dissect movies of all kinds — both Indie and Blockbuster — according to the 15 structural beats outlined in my book. I call it the…
I’ve been meaning to post this link. It’s a reprint of an article that ran in the NY Times Magazine a month or so ago. The topic: Primal Storytelling. I am always on about the need to write a “primal” tale and to find the…
