Best of Blake: The Checklist
Blake Snyder reveals the checklist writers can reference to see what makes a successful story.
What Writers Can Learn From tick, tick… BOOM!
See how tick, tick...BOOM! demonstrates to writers the power of ticking clocks to raise the stakes of their stories.
How to Use the Parallel Beats of the Save the Cat! Beat Sheet
Understand how the parallel beats of Catalyst/Debate/Break into Two and All Is Lost/Dark Night of the Soul/Break into Three can be used to powerfully demonstrate a hero’s transformation.
Announcing the 2022 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge
Submit your feature film and TV scripts to the Save the Cat! screenplay competition to get feedback from professional writers and qualify for prizes.
Confessions of a Pantser: Revisiting Rancho Viejo
It was lovely feeling Blake there reading over my shoulder again, and to feel everything coming together just as he’d tried to tell me it would.
The Three Worlds Your Hero Must Travel Through
Understand the Three Worlds of great screenwriting: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis according to Blake Snyder in his book, Save the Cat! Strikes Back.
Mank: The Hollywood Fool and His Fun and Games
nderstand how the film "Mank" fits the Save the Cat! Fool Triumphant genre, while "Citizen Kane" is a Superhero.
How Save the Cat!® Helped Me Write and Revise My Dual POV Novel
How author Robin Reul used Blake Snyder's 15 story beats for both major characters in her new novel, Where the Road Leads Us.
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Save the Cat!® Crash Course 2
Introducing an online course that breaks down the 15 beats of the movies Knives Out and Jojo Rabbit and the first season of the TV series The Mandalorian in 15 informative videos — one per beat.
Announcing the 2021 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge
All entrants receive 50 points of analysis—at no extra cost. All scripts receive a full read. Feedback is grounded in structure—not subjective opinion. Our approach is simple: a screenplay competition that uses the same language the writer, the reader, and the decision makers use when...
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