
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need
Although this book is geared toward screenwriters, it's also been very popular for novelists, who can take away many lessons about story structure.
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Although this book is geared toward screenwriters, it's also been very popular for novelists, who can take away many lessons about story structure.
From the Back Cover:
He’s made millions of dollars selling screenplays to Hollywood and now screenwriter Blake Snyder tells all. “Save the Cat” is just one of Snyder’s many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying – and saleable, including:
This book isn’t my favorite for learning story structure (and it’s geared toward screenwriters rather than novelists), but it is a good first introduction to story structure and is a classic that literally “wrote the book” on many story structure ideas and strategies (like the concept of beats and beat sheets).
It reveals audience (or in our case, reader) reasons for why stories are structured the way they are. Don’t miss my post about how writers of any length stories can use this structure.
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