Tag Archives: Save the Cat

The 15 Beats of Storytelling – and the Fate of Democracy

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Trish and Rob

              In his brilliant book Save the Cat, screenwriter Blake Snyder introduced the 15 beats of storytelling. In terms of the story of democracy as we head toward the Nov 2024 election, it feels like we’re now … Continue reading →

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Save the Cat & Democracy

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Trish and Rob

      If we were living in a novel, where would we be right now as a human collective? In novel and movies, in any captivating story, the catalyst is the event, the point in time, where an event … Continue reading →

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Episode 8 of The Mystical Underground Podcast

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

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Life as Movie Script

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Trish and Rob

  If life right now was a movie script, we would be in Act 2, what author Blake Snyder in Save the Cat, calls the upside world. This world is where the hero has left the status quo world (which … Continue reading →

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trump presidency in 15 Blake Snyder Movie Beats

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Trish and Rob

In Blake Snyder’s wonderful book on screenwriting, Save the Cat, there’s a break into act 2 that he describes as entering “the upside down world,” the antithesis of act 1. And since our lives, globally and personally, are stories, trump … Continue reading →

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Inktip and Scriptwriting

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Trish and Rob

I’m not sure how I heard about Inktip. But at some point after Hilary Hemingway and I had written a script for my novel, Ghost Key, we registered it with Writers Guild West, proof that the script is yours. I … Continue reading →

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Save the Cat

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Trish and Rob

  David Wilson of Crossroad Books recommended this book. I emailed him one night with a question about something else and we started discussing scriptwriting, Inktip, and Stage 32 Over the years I’ve read a lot of books on storytelling, … Continue reading →

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