Save the Cat!(r) Beat Sheet Workbook: How Writers Turn Ideas Into Stories

Son loved this!

This at first seemed a bit childish but the steps breakdown brainstorming to get to the heart of your theme and what you really want to write. Enjoyable, fun and yet a serious structuring and plotting guide. Would buy another for my next book. IF I finish the actual writing of this one!

Loved it. Was struggling to come up with ideas for a novel. This book has a goldmine of information for creating ideas for your story, characters, plot ideas. Plus the famous save the cat outline, where Jamie walks you through every beat of the STC. Making sure your story is strong. 10/10 Definitely recommend if your struggling with your novel.

Great product!

The Save the Cat Beat Sheet Workbook is my new favorite tool for brainstorming and story generation! I’ve read both Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat and Jessica Brody’s Save the Cat Writes a Novel, and this workbook is the perfect companion. Where the books assume the writer has an idea already, this interactive workbook starts from scratch by examining your emotions, what gets your heart pounding, and more. It’s perfect for those new to the STC method. I’d suggest working through the idea generation exercises in this workbook first, before reading the books, because it encourages play and helps your imagination run wild. My favorite exercise was gluing a photo to the page and creating plots in different movie genres like comedy, science fiction, inspirational, and horror. I wrote several variations of my initial story idea and love them all! The Choose Your Own Adventure section was fun, and it is no surprise to me, since I mostly write creative nonfiction and memoir, that I’m an Inside Out writer. Even though I’ve completed two book-length beat sheets in the past, this workbook was still full of revelations. Jamie Nash’s Beat Sheet Workbook is a godsend for writers like me who’ve fallen into a rut of taking their writing too seriously. This was the book I needed to help me break through the blocks that have been holding me back and blast back into my creative side.

Es una herramienta hermosa para escribir historias y crear personajes.

This is a great planner to get your mind moving but, so far, it's just been a bit of fun

My daughter, a fledgling writer, asked for this book. It was recommended to her; she did her research of it and was very happy to receive the book as a gift.

I read Blake Snyder's Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need a few years ago because I was just getting back into screenwriting after having had an interest in it when I was younger, and it seemed like that was one of the primary books that was recommended. It wasn't the only book I read on screenwriting at the time, but I did find it to be particularly user-friendly and understandable when it comes to story structure in a screenplay. Of course, the book hasn't been without its share of detractors claiming that it's formulaic and even that it destroyed Hollywood movies because so many screenwriters started adopting it. But rather than being formulaic, Snyder's structure acts as a fairly loose blueprint to help you craft a compelling story for the screen. It's more like a playground with wide boundaries for screenwriters to play in, giving a lot of freedom of choice within the framework. I've written two screenplays of my own, and for both, I outlined first using Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet from Save the Cat. Though Save the Cat itself is a great book, many writers have had questions throughout the years on how to implement its concepts. The answer to that is Jamie Nash's new book Save the Cat Beat Sheet Workbook. This is honestly the Save the Cat book I've been waiting for. I've read every Save the Cat book since the original and have enjoyed how the authors have analyzed film and television using the STC method. But I have struggled at times with how to handle things like Snyder's "fun and games" beat and how to develop realistic characters. Save the Cat Beat Sheet Workbook is a creativity-generating workbook like I've never come across. Jamie Nash helps you to dig into who you are as a writer before helping you to come up with not just one but many potential story ideas before getting you to focus on one. There's even an element of "Choose Your Own Adventure" to it in that you can choose the path of an Inside Out approach to planning your story or an Outside In approach. Either way, you'll learn how to develop a solid plot and a cast of characters to inhabit your story. The book is designed as a workbook for planning and writing one story, so for someone like me who struggles with writing in books and wanting to be able to use this more than once, I'm working through the pages in a separate notebook, but it's a highly valuable tool for generating ideas not only for stories but for scenes and characters as well. Save the Cat Beat Sheet Workbook is the perfect companion to Blake Snyder's original Save the Cat.