Description: "Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!, the world's top-selling story method for filmmakers and novelists, introduces The Last Book on Creating Binge-Worthy Content You'll Ever Need. Screenwriter Jamie Nash takes up Snyder's torch to lay out a step-by-step approach using Blake's principles for both new and experienced writers, including: How to write and structure a compelling TV pilot that can launch both your series and your TV writing career; All the nuances, tricks, and techniques of pilot-writing: the Opening Pitch, the Guided Tour, the Whiff of Change, and more; The 8 Save the Cat! TV Franchise Types that will improve your story and your pitch; The not-so-secret TV Pitch Template that turns your TV series into the necessary read-over-lunch industry document; a how-to in creating layered characters who are driven by complex internal struggles; Beat sheets of the pilots of Barry, Ozark, Grey's Anatomy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, What We Do in the Shadows, Black-ish, The Mandalorian, This Is Us, Law and Order: SVU and more to help you crack your story. Create your binge-worthy TV series with Save the Cat! Writes for TV"--
Brief description:
JAMIE NASH, is the author of the best-selling Save the Cat!(R) Writes for TV and Save The Cat! Beat Sheet Workbook. He has 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. When he's not writing and selling work, he teaches screenwriting at Johns Hopkins University and MICA and co-hosts the podcast Writers/Blockbusters. Jamie lives in Maryland with his wife, son, and a talking dog.