Break out your favourite pencil and roll up your sleeves! The Save the Cat! (R) Beat Sheet Workbook provides key writing prompts and asks all the important questions-but you bring the story, filling out the pages that walk you step-by-step through the Save the Cat! process. The official hands-on companion to the best-selling Save the Cat! and Save the Cat! Writes for TV, this interactive workbook helps you dig deep into every aspect of your story. It's inspiring, easy to manage, and your guide to: * Idea and Concept Brainstorming - Unlock your idea engine with a series of exercises and prompts geared to help you find your best story idea. * Meaningful Themes - Explore yourself, matching your story to something that speaks to your soul and represents your tastes and personality. * Story Genre Identification - Nail down that pesky question of ""What is your story?"" with the Save the Cat! Story Genres. * Create Fully Developed Characters - Give life to main characters who have wants, needs, and flaws. Surround them with a supporting cast that provides opportunities for conflict and thematic tension. * The Save the Cat! Beat Sheet - Discover the tools and detailed exercises to give your story the structure to succeed

Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!, the world's top-selling story method for filmmakers and novelists, introduces The Last Book on Creating Binge-Worthy Content You'll Ever Need.

Screenwriter Jamie Nash takes up Snyder's torch to lay out a step-by-step approach using Blake's principles for both new and experienced writers, including:

• How to write and structure a compelling TV pilot that can launch both your series and your TV writing career
• All the nuances, tricks, and techniques of pilot-writing: the Opening Pitch, the Guided Tour, the Whiff of Change, and more
• The 8 Save the Cat! TV Franchise Types that will improve your story and your pitch
• The not-so-secret TV Pitch Template that turns your TV series into the necessary read-over-lunch industry document
• A how-to in creating layered characters who are driven by complex internal struggles
• Beat sheets of the pilots of Barry, Ozark, Grey's Anatomy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, What We Do in the Shadows, Black-ish, The Mandalorian, This Is Us, Law and Order: SVU and more to help you crack your story

Create your binge-worthy TV series with Save the Cat! Writes for TV.