In this podcast, Blake Snyder talks about the importance of concept, idea generation, how to harness your imagination, and how to write outstanding loglines .

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The components of his story types

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Opening Image, Midpoint, and Final Image

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Master Cat Naomi Beaty shares strategies that can help you develop your beat sheet in a way that works for you.

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You need to understand the proportions of your story beats to create a foundation that truly resonates with readers and audiences.

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Ask moral questions.

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Answers to a challenging question

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What is your theme's purpose?

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Naomi Beaty shows how you can create an arc.

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How to use the story beat to crack your own story.

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The writer of Kubo and the Two Strings on creativity and the writing process.

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Defining transformation.

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In this podcast, Blake Snyder discusses your idea -- and how to express it in an effective pitch and logline

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How to use Blake Snyder's 10 genres to develop your story.

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How and when you use this beat.

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The purpose of your B Story and your B Story Character.

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The foundation of both your story and your hero's emotional needs.

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Bad Guys Close In and more

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Fun & Games and the Midpoint

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The first seven beats

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The thesis world of Act One vs. the upside-down world of Act Two

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The first of newly discovered Blake Snyder audios

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The writer delivers a perfect Set-up.

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Master Cat Naomi Beaty shows how movies of any type can share a basic structure and still engage audiences with new, interesting ideas.

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A strong "High Tower Surprise"!

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The genre of this Academy Award® winner is Rites of Passage.

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An excellent example of the Institutionalized genre.

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When you need that extra push.

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How different should your Act Two world be?

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A goal is crucial.

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A conversation about heroes.

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What is your antagonist's goal?

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What are your hero's needs?

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What's the right halfway point for your story? What is the signal that the Fun and Games are over?

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We help you take a closer look at your story ideas.

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Can the sequence of the beats be changed?

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Discover a way to raise the stakes for your hero.

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How characters can resonate.

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How set-ups can really pay off.

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  Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Opening and Final Images in this year’s Best Animated Picture Oscar® winner do exactly what they should, contrasting the world at the beginning of the story with the world at the end, and emphasizing the transformation of the...

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Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Debate beat in this year’s Best Picture Oscar® winner does exactly what it should, setting up the Theme Stated and telling the audience what this story is about: how Solomon Northrup will live… and not just merely survive. Listen...

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Blake talks to the students of Will Akers (Your Screenplay Sucks) in this invigorating breakdown of The Verdict (writer: David Mamet; director: Sidney Lumet) — including the role of the B Story and Theme Stated in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and the necessary balance of protagonist and nemesis —...

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  Blake Snyder talks about storytelling, screenwriting, empowering writers — and transformation — in this in-depth conversation with Robin Mizell about his 3 books.      

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Master Cat Naomi Beaty reveals 3 things script readers look for.

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Discover many ways you can integrate the beat sheet into your writing process.

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Each of Blake Snyder's 10 genres have distinctive catalysts.

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What do you, the writer, need to know?

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The Catalyst, Break into Two, and Break into Three story beats

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