Novel beat sheet

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…

Just after Christmas, I finished the first draft of Hero and since the New Year I’ve been hard at work on the second draft. Dan Wells’s 7-point plot system (aka the Pantser’s Beat…

My FREE Scrivener novel planning template based on the popular Save the Cat! Writes a Novel beat sheet

A few weeks ago, I was at the half-way point of my first draft and having trouble with my plot. After ten months of steadily pounding away at the keyboard and chipping at the word count, I was incr…

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of story structure. I’ve created several beat sheets and have oodles of posts about the topic. But I’m also not a math person, so the idea of working in Excel for all those worksheets gave me the heebie-jeebies at first. I’m probably not the only one. It doesn’t […]

Blake Snyder's beat sheet

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 […]