Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Opening and Final Image Beats of Frozen
Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Opening and Final Images in this year’s Best Animated Picture Oscar® winner do exactly what they should, contrasting the world at the beginning of the story with the world at the end, and emphasizing the transformation of the...
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Debate Beat in 12 Years a Slave
Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Debate beat in this year’s Best Picture Oscar® winner does exactly what it should, setting up the Theme Stated and telling the audience what this story is about: how Solomon Northrup will live… and not just merely survive. Listen...
Save the Cat!® Podcast: Genre and Gravity
Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how Gravity is a Dude(tte) with a Problem — and how knowing the genre of your story can help you write it — in this discussion with Guy Thompson .
Reworking the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
Master Cat! Jose Silerio writes about an exciting, different, and downloadable format for the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet from workshop attendee and writer Tom Gowen: Our workshops are a great opportunity to vet your ideas and put them through the wringer — or as we call it:...
The Transformation Machine One-Sheet
The Transformation Machine is exactly what it sounds like. It forces your hero to change, to transform. This one-sheet shows how the beats of the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet help lay out the two stories being told in the journey of every hero: the external/physical...
Blake Interviewed by the Movie Geeks
Jamey Duvall and Jerry Dennis host a weekly show about movies and moviemakers and it’s smart and insightful stuff. Please note this episode begins with a great interview with producer A. Kitman Ho. To hear Blake’s interview, forward to minute 34. Listen »
48 Things To Do in 48 Hours in L.A.
You have two days to visit Los Angeles and, aspiring screenwriter that you are, you know those 48 hours have to count. Here are 48 places to check out in Tinseltown. Revised by Naomi Beaty, January 2014. Download pdf »
Blake Snyder’s 10 Tips on Writing Horror
In the mood for horror, but can’t nail the story? Here are 10 exercises to unleash your inner Stephen King.
Blake Snyder’s 10 Tips on Writing Comedy
Want to write a comedy, but don’t know where to start? Try these 10 idea-generating exercises: 1. The Switch – This comedy starting point has antecedents in stories like “The Prince and the Pauper” and the movie, Trading Places. This is the comedy story where...
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