Save the Cat!, Blake Snyder
Save the Cat!, Blake Snyder
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Save the Cat!
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Author: Blake Snyder

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2018

Synopsis

Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, others include these: The four elements of every winning logline The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics The ten genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by-and why they're important to your script Why your hero must serve your idea Mastering the fifteen beats Creating the Perfect Beast by using The Board to map forty scenes with conflict and emotional change How to get back on track with proven rules for script repair This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a showbiz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.

About Blake Snyder

Blake Snyder (1957-2009) worked as a screenwriter and producer for twenty years. His book Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need and its sequels have guided screenwriters, novelists, and other creative thinkers for years and continue to be bestsellers. His methodology is also used by many development executives, managers, and producers due to its precise, easy, and honest appraisal of what it takes to write and develop stories in any medium.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on May 13, 2019

This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to......more

Goodreads review by Alexa on April 12, 2013

My critique partner swears by this book, and in fact has been holding my revision notes ransom until I read it! :) She was kind enough to gift me with a copy, so I hunkered down and zipped through. It was a punchy, fast read--the margins are freakishly large, so it's not *really* a 150 page book; it......more

Goodreads review by Thompson on August 11, 2008

While this book is a clever and succinct reduction of Hollywood story structure, it is not well-served by its snarky, priggish author, who with every page radiates the very same sort of smug, too-cool attitude that the rest of the world associates with Los Angeles. That he is smart, I have no doubts......more

Goodreads review by K.M. on November 22, 2013

As a novelist, the more I read screenwriting books, the more I love them. Straightforward, no-nonsense, and endlessly applicable, they cut through the fluff and offer practical tips for writing better stories. Snyder's beloved Save the Cat! is certainly no different. He entertains even as he shares......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on January 19, 2010

Some people who can't really should teach. Blake Snyder mentions on several occasions that he sold a screenplay to Steven Spielberg for a million dollars at one point. Impressive right? Then he ruins it by describing his story. It was called "Nuclear Family" and involved a family who camped by a nucle......more

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