Dept. of Unfortunate Subtitles
Save The Cat!, subtitled "The Last Book On Screenwriting That You'll Ever Need!" ...
... now has a sequel!
(But both books -- Save the Cat! and Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies -- are excellent. More info at author Blake Snyder's website)
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Posted by Rob on Saturday, December 22, 2007
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For those of us who aspire to writing for print as opposed to screen, do you think there are things in these books that are useful, or are they best for people who want to write for visual media?
The books are focussed on structuring a plot. The first one gives Blake Snyder's skeleton of how an effective plot should be structured, and it's a very interesting anaylsis.
The second one simply takes 50 well-known films and breaks them down to show how the plots were structured (not surprisingly, fitting them precisely to Snyder's template).
I think a lot of the advice is applicable to plotting for any medium; I'm only peripherally interested in screenplays myself these days, but am finding the books interesting and useful in my role as a novelist.
Useful for the comic book scripting trade as well, perhaps?
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