oh, no!

So now that I feel like I’m back to writing — finally, after over a year’s hiatus — I started searching for screenwriting blogs.

As you might imagine with the screenwriting industry being what it is (which is thousands of people who write and only a handful who get to see their writing come to life on film) the screenwriting “blogosphere” has people who come and go all the time. Quite a few of my former online pals have closed up shop. So I was out to search for some new buddies.

And then I find out that Blake Snyder, my all-time favorite how-to writer…died! He wrote one of the more recent, definite books on screenwriting called Save the Cat. I’ve e-mailed with him a few times — can you believe it? An author with a best-selling book took the time to e-mail me, a perfect stranger? It seems like he was like that with everyone. You can read comments about him here. He was always very positive and inspiring and I can’t believe he’s dead. He looks so young. And he was so young. In his early 50s. Cardiac arrest. Man.

I guess he’ll have to be my “buddy” in spirit now…