Elf Beat Sheet
Thanks to Cory Milles for this merriest of beat sheets. Cory is a teacher who routinely uses Blake’s ideas to challenge his students. His chapters on “The Power of Story” and “The Hero’s Journey” have been published in the books LOST Thought and LOST Thought...
Music in the Movies: How Scores and Songs Reflect the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
Our thanks to guest blogger Cory Milles for this astute and lyrical post. It is said that music is the universal language. It is also the language of the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet. After reading Michael Kurinsky’s masterful blog post about how color in animation...
Raiders of the Lost Ark Beat Sheet
See Blake Snyder's story beats for "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
The Amazing Spider-Man Beat Sheet
Our thanks to guest blogger Cory Milles (not pictured above) for this web(site)-slinging breakdown. I love the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, and so I was skeptical when I discovered that the studio was doing a reboot of the franchise. Deep down, part of me wanted...
The Avengers Beat Sheet
Guest blogger Cory Milles has been teaching writing for nearly a decade. In his spare time, he writes Young Adult novels that seek to capture the power of story to transform his readers. He recently finished writing Paradox, his fourth YA novel, using the Blake...
Using the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet in the Classroom
Our thanks to guest blogger Cory Milles, who has been teaching writing for nearly a decade. In his spare time, he writes Young Adult novels that seek to capture the power of story to transform his readers, and recently finished writing his fourth YA novel, tentatively...
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...
