This week, I invited writer, author, and director, Jamie Nash on the present to debate his ‘Save The Cats Writes for TV’ method in his new e-book, Save the Cat!® Writes for TV: The Last Book on Creating Binge-Worthy Content You’ll Ever Need.
Jamie is a horror and youngsters’s movie screenwriter with fifteen years of expertise writing initiatives for Nickelodeon, Liongate, Discovery, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and so on, and likewise teaches screenwriting to varsity college students.
Some of his most notable horror credit embrace V/H/S/2, Lovely Molly, and Seventh Moon, A Comedy of Horrors, and Two Front Teeth. And others like Adventures of a Teenage Dragon Slayer, Tiny Christmas, and so on.
Screenwriting, for Jamie, was a aspect undertaking he pursued at leisure when he wasn’t working his Computer gaming/programming job. It wasn’t till early 2004 that he offered his first script, a horror function titled, Altered, to Haxan Films that was later directed in 2006 by one of many Blair Witch Project administrators, Eduardo Sánchez. The story premised on a bunch of males whose lives had been eternally modified by an odd prevalence who, fifteen years later Now, will spend an evening collectively … in terror.
With some monetary success and notoriety from Altered, Jamie give up his pc marketing consultant job with Citigroup and went full-time on screenwriting in 2008.
Jamie is a type of writers who keep busy. He writes about 5 to 6 scripts a 12 months for pilots, TV exhibits, podcasts, novels, and so on. This justifies why he has a Writers Guild.
It takes a number of brainpower to create a number of plots which might be so completely different in some ways inside a brief time period. An instance is his 2017 screenplays, The Night Watchman and Tiny Christmas. Two very distinct writing and audiences.
He co-wrote The Night Watchman with Ken Arnold and Dan DeLuca. It is mainly a story of three inept evening watchmen, aided by a younger rookie and a fearless tabloid journalist, combat an epic battle for his or her lives towards a horde of hungry vampires.
Tiny Christmas alternatively is about a lady and her quirky cousin who’re by chance zapped by a shrinking ray by the hands of one in every of Santa’s inept elves on Christmas Eve they usually should be taught to belief and respect one another and work as a crew to get again residence earlier than Christmas, or danger staying tiny eternally.
On March thirtieth, 2021, he launched his third e-book, Save the Cat!® Writes for TV by which he shares the essence of writing pilots as pitches for screenwriters contemplating tv as a result of greater than 80% of jobs within the Writers Guild of America are skewed in the direction of the tv.
Nash takes up Snyder’s torch to put out a step-by-step method utilizing Blake’s ideas for each new and skilled writers, together with:
-How to jot down and construction a compelling TV pilot that may launch each your collection and your TV writing profession
-All the nuances, methods, and strategies of pilot-writing: the Opening Pitch, the Guided Tour, the Whiff of Change, and extra
-The 8 Save the Cat! TV Franchise Types that can enhance your story and your pitch
-The not-so-secret TV Pitch Template that turns your TV collection into the mandatory read-over-lunch business doc
-a how-to in creating layered characters who’re pushed by advanced inside struggles
-Beat sheets of the pilots of Barry, Ozark, Grey’s Anatomy, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, What We Do within the Shadows, Black-ish, The Mandalorian, This Is Us, Law, and Order: SVU, and extra that can assist you crack your story
Create your binge-worthy TV collection with Save the Cat! Writes for TV
We talked some extra about his personal indie movie hustle journey–working extra time to get a headstart within the business, we additionally talked about his networking approach that retains him booked and busy.
I may speak one other hour extra with Jamie. He is so candid about his course of and the drive behind it.
Enjoy this dialog with Jamie Nash.
