Using the Beats for Series Planning and Creating Distinctive Characters
An author needed a structural tool.
The Hunger Games Book/Movie Beat Sheet Comparison
Novelist Jessica Brody compares the story beats of "The Hunger Games" book and movie.
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...
Embracing My Crazy Stupid Scary
Today’s Guest Blogger is Hope Tarr, the award-winning author of 15 historical and contemporary romance novels as well as a Co-Founder of Lady Jane’s Salon, New York City’s first (and so far only) monthly romance reading series. Forty-Three Is Too Old for a Fifth Floor Walk-Up...
Introducing 2 New Beat Sheet Workshops
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....
A Newly Discovered Interview with Blake
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...
Author Kimber An: How Blake Snyder Brought Order to the Chaos of My Imagination
Today’s Guest Blogger is Author Kimber An, whose ebook, Sugar Rush, was published in October. Kimber lives in Alaska with her husband and four children. She has lots of pearls of wisdom. Our favorites are: “Can’t count to five with my mittens on” and “The...
Calling All Techno-Cats!
Wow! It’s already April… the days fly by… and you know what happens in April! That’s right, the day that brings all scribes to their knees — Income Tax Day — it puts the “Ow!” in Meow! To take the sting out of the approaching...
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