Your beats, at your page numbers.

The fifteen beats are written for a 110 page screenplay, and almost nobody writes 110 pages. Enter the length you are actually aiming at and every beat moves to its real page. Then open a document already divided, and write in it.

Your script

Page size

You get a document with every beat in place and room to write under each one.

The fifteen beats

Why the pages move

Blake Snyder wrote his page numbers for a 110 page screenplay, and they get quoted as if they were laws. A television pilot runs 32 pages and a first feature often runs 95. Applied literally, the midpoint of a 95 page script lands ten pages late, which is exactly the note everybody gets and nobody can explain.

So the beats here are held as proportions and scaled to the length you type. What comes out is not more correct than the original, it is just aimed at your script instead of someone else's.

What you get

The table

Fifteen beats, each at its page, with the spans marked from page to page. It updates as you change the length, so you can see what a shorter script does to your second act before you write it.

The document

The same beats, in a file that opens in Google Docs already formatted, with each beat as a heading and a gap under it. Most beat sheet tools hand you numbers to copy out. This one hands you the page to write on.

Now write in it.

Screenplay Editor formats your script while you type in Google Docs. Enter and Tab move you between a character, a line of dialogue and the next scene, the way Final Draft does. It is free to start.

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Questions about structure

I write my own films in Google Docs, so I built the tools I kept wishing existed.

Ask me something
Is this the Save the Cat beat sheet?
It is the fifteen beat structure Blake Snyder set out in Save the Cat, with the page numbers scaled to the length you are writing rather than fixed at his 110 pages.
Does my script have to follow it?
No. It is a map of where a mainstream film usually turns, which is useful to know whether you are following it or deliberately not. Plenty of good films ignore it.
Can I use it for a TV pilot or a short?
Yes, that is the point of scaling. Type 32 pages for a half hour pilot or 12 for a short, and every beat moves with it.
What do I get when I press the button?
A document that opens in Google Docs already formatted as a screenplay, with each beat in place and space under it. You drag the downloaded file into Google Drive and open it.

The other free tools

Open your screenplay in Google Docs

A PDF, a Final Draft file or a Fountain file becomes a document that opens already formatted.

Check your format before you send it

The notes a reader would write, before a reader writes them.

Turn your script into a breakdown sheet

Every scene, its location, its time of day and its cast, in a coloured spreadsheet.

Make a title page that looks right

Four fields, and the title page a reader expects.

How long does your script run?

A real estimate, and where the time actually goes.

See who carries your script

Who speaks, how much, in how many scenes, from which page to which.