Beating Out a Book Series
Novelist Marilyn Brandt shows how you can use the beats to breakdown an entire series.
He Said, She Said: Lessons in (Buddy) Love
How to strike a successful balance of co-protagonists.
What You See Is Who You Get: POV in Script-To-Book Adaptations
How to translate what the camera sees to what each character in your novel experiences.
Character Pitfalls by Kristan Higgins
A list of the mistakes this successful novelist has made... so that you can avoid them!
Good Like This and the Cat! Beats
Our thanks for this illuminating blog to Peter Arpesella, an author, actor, and writer based in Los Angeles, originally from Rimini, Italy. His family owned the historical Grand Hotel, where family friend Federico Fellini set his legendary Amarcord. After his successful excursion in the investment banking world, Peter discovered...
Jessica Brody’s Exclusive in USA Today
Congrats to Master Cat! Jessica Brody for this exclusive excerpt from her upcoming February 25, 2014 release, Unforgotten, book two in her Unremembered trilogy! Watch this site for announcements throughout the year of Jessica’s Save the Cat!® novel-writing lectures and seminars.
The Last Time I Spoke with Blake – A Remembrance for the New Year from Cynthia M. Dagnal-Myron
She was Blake Snyder’s worst student. And he loved it.
Love Scene Beat Sheet
Our thanks to Master Cat! Geoff Harris for this breakdown of the intoxicating 8-minute film that’s piling up well-deserved awards, including Best Short, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress from the 2013 London International Film Festival. And be sure to note the link and password that...
How the Beats Helped a Writer Self-Publish an Amazon Hit
How Chris Kohout used STC! to write his first novel, Einstein Must Die!, which hit #1 on Amazon's Sci-Fi/Steampunk category:
