An on demand, learn at your own pace course that elevates your storytelling capabilities and empowers you to crack your own idea for a novel or a screenplay.
What You’ll Learn and Accomplish in the Save the Cat! Cracking the Beat Sheet Online Course
In the self-paced Cracking Your Beat Sheet workshop, you’ll start with an idea for a novel or film and leave with the 15 key beats that will become the backbone of your story.
With the popular Save the Cat! approach, you’ll discover the language of storytelling and the universal story structuring principles that are widely used by successful screenwriters and novelists.
You’ll turn an idea into a story by learning to…
Create a solid beat sheet that will serve as the blueprint, road map, and “backbone” of your story
Identify and know the key components of your story genre
Learn the clichés of your genre so that you can break them like an artist
Plot your hero’s “transformation”
Troubleshoot your story idea for viability
Write a compelling logline or elevator pitch
Develop a title to your story that anyone can visualize
Requirements
A copy of Blake Snyder’s first book, Save the Cat!
A computer, tablet, or smartphone
An idea (or several) that you want to write
Is This Course for You?
This course is for those who…
Want to troubleshoot an existing story
Have so many great ideas and struggle to choose “the one”
Are ready to write but not sure how to start
Are determined to finish a half-written story
Want to learn
This Course Includes
Over 3 hours and 17 minutes of original video production
