What You'll Learn and Accomplish

Time to crack those knuckles and roll up your sleeves! This self-paced interactive 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 books, this 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.  


Requirements

  • A computer, tablet, or smartphone
  • An open mind

Is This Course for You?

This course is for those who...

  • Have written a film script or TV pilot, but want to dig a little deeper on your next one
  • Have a great idea but don't know what to do with it
  • Have always wanted to tell stories but don't know where to begin
  • Are a seasoned pro looking to shake things up
  • Love to write and want to have some fun

Whether you're a first-timer or a working writer or somewhere in the middle, this book will take you step-by-step from idea generation to story outline.

This Course Includes

  • The original 193-page best-selling paperback workbook, adapted into a digital format that allows you to type in modules, upload drawings and images, and export your work product

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Workbook Sections

    • Front Cover

    • Quotes

    • Copyright Page

    • Introduction

    • The Storytelling Steps

    • Section 1: Unlock Your Story

    • Section 2: Story Ideas

    • Section 3: That's a Horrible Idea... I Love It!

    • Section 4: Let's Talk Plot and Characters

    • Section 5: Choose Your Own Writer Adventure

    • Section 6: Let's Thicken That Plot!

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    • Section 7: Develop Your Characters

    • Section 8: Ensemble Assemble!

    • Section 9: The Save the Cat! Beat Sheet - Part 1

    • Section 10: The Save the Cat! Beat Sheet - Part 2

    • Section 11: Your 15 Save the Cat! Beats

    • Print

    • About the Author

    • Back Cover

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    • Tell Us What You Think

The Author

Jamie Nash

Jamie Nash is the author of the best-selling Save the Cat!® Writes for TV and the Save the Cat!® Beat Sheet Workbook. He has written and sold almost every type of story under the sun, including the horror films Exists, V/H/S/2, The Night Watchmen, Altered, and Lovely Molly, and the family films Santa Hunters and Tiny Christmas. He has written the Middle Grade novels Bunk! and The 44 Rules of Amateur Sleuthing and the sci-fi novel Nomad. Jamie knows what it's like to make a living as a writer. When he’s not writing and selling work, he teaches screenwriting at Johns Hopkins University and MICA and co-hosts the podcast Writers/Blockbusters.

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