Succession & Barry – 6 Ways to Write Characters You Love to Hate
How to establish characters that have flaws to overcome, things to fix in their lives, and reasons to root for--essential for a story to work.
FREE TOOL ALERT: The Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Mapper
We've improved our Beat Mapper, which calculates where the beats fall in your story according to its length.
Play with the Cat: Experimenting with Layers, Loops, and Chopped Harmonies in Story Structure
Learn how to experiment in storytelling using story structure in playful ways, as in Mario Moreno's KILLA, A Mixtape Novella
NEW PRODUCT ALERT! Beat2Board Online Course
In the self-paced Beat2Board course, you'll discover a story-breaking strategy to go beyond the beat sheet and develop the scene cards that will become the backbone of your screenplay or novel.
The Promise of the Premise: Fun and Games
See how Bryan Keithley and Peter Podgursky used Blake Snyder's Save the Cat! to write their hit podcast NPRmageddon.
Best of Blake: Why Clear Story Structure = Clear Thinking
This blog was originally posted on April 16, 2009. If we can tell a story well, we can communicate on every level in a quicker, more effective way! One thing I hear from audiences I get to speak to, from writers in class or in...
Save the Cat!® Goes to the Tribeca Film Festival
Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying, a comedy which features the Save the Cat! beats, premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Best of Blake: Act Zero
Deciding what is important in any story we tell—no matter how we tell it—is the writer's job.
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