Beat sheet

Do you know how to use the Save the Cat Beat Sheet? It's a novel-writing template with 15 plot points, and I want to show you how to use it!

Posts about beat sheet written by Dark Mark

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

Save the Cat Beat Sheet for Novels - "Wicked" - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document outlines the basic plot points of the musical Wicked according to Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet. It provides a brief description of each major story event, including the arrival of the main characters at Shiz University, Elphaba's invitation to study with Madame Morrible and meet the Wizard, the spreading of rumors labeling Elphaba as "wicked", her…

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November) starts today, and while I plan to continue blogging throughout NaNo, I wanted to make sure I gave you something good to keep you happy during my crazy month. *smile* Of course, whether or not you’d define today’s post as anything good might depend […]

Do you use the Scrivener program for your writing? Many writers do, especially as Scrivener sponsors NaNoWriMo and offers a discount to participants. I started using Scrivener for my NaNo drafting last year and was able to buy the program at half-off because of my NaNo win. Woo hoo! Many writers like Scrivener (Windows and Mac) for […]

Here's a Scrivener template for my Master Beat Sheet, which combines the Save the Cat Beat Sheet and my Story Engineering Beat Sheet.

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About the same time I revisted the BS2, Jami Gold posted an excellent article about using beat sheets with Scrivener. What I liked most about the article was the idea of using the target word count…

Story outlining can be tough! There are various writing techniques to help structure your short-story, novel, or script. In this article, I share a...