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
• 9 downloadable worksheets
• 3 reading assignments (book not included)
• 4 homework assignments
• a free preview and free downloadable PDF