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The Year of the Cat

With five produced feature screenplays and over 100 television episode scripts, writer Rick Drew has had many good years in the entertainment industry -- and yet he's optimistic that 2017 will be a landmark one. On this week's blog, we present his touching retrospective on the lasting impact of Save the Cat!, and his look ahead at the positivity you can bring to your own writing career in these upcoming months.
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Check Out Beat Sheets by Genre

You can now filter our website's Beat Sheets by one of Blake Snyder's 10 genres! The genres can be found in the top right of our alphabetical list of Beat Sheets. Check out our Superhero Beat Sheets. Be sure to note the 3 elements of each genre at the top of each page.
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Upcoming Workshops

Sign up for one of our Beat Sheet Screenwriting Workshops, and finish the year strong with your screenplay well on its way to completion!
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Our workshops make great gifts for writers determined to meet their screenwriting goals in 2017!

JANUARY 07-08, 2017
New York Beat Sheet Screenwriting Workshop
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FEBRUARY 11-12, 2017
Los Angeles Beat Sheet Screenwriting Workshop
 
MARCH 18-19, 2017
New York Beat Sheet Screenwriting Workshop
 

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Our Latest Book -- Now Available in Print and Digital

From 2005 until his death in 2009, Blake Snyder wrote his 3 best-selling Save the Cat!® books along with 209 blogs on the Save the Cat!® website.
The 112 blog posts in this ebook have been carefully curated and edited from Blake’s originals. We have selected posts that we believe are timeless, resonating as powerfully today as on the day Blake wrote them.
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