Posts Tagged ‘ story ’

Discovery: The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet

I don’t like screenwriting gurus. Because they suck. But I came across something that I find amazingly useful. The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet. I’m not going to explain it, except that its a list of beats 15 beats in a movie. Google it. Okay lets get to this. Question: Why does this blake [ READ MORE ]

3 Brief Theories on Story Creation

I’m reading Story by Robert Mckee, and I think he’s confused the creation process with the deconstruction process.  Just because you’re good at demolition doesn’t mean you can build something. But maybe the most valuable learning involves creating the theory as you go along.  So I’m scrapping the dogma and creating my own theories on story [ READ MORE ]