Friday, July 26, 2013

Book Twenty-Five: SAVE THE CAT!

Save the Cat!, by Blake Snyder, 2005.

Front Cover

TTR: two-ish days.

Comments:

As those of you who've stumbled across my personal writing blog, Syncopated Synonyms, have probably already deduced, I'm not only an avid reader, I'm also one of those maniacal, pseudo-psychopathic individuals that our society likes to call "writers." Those of you who've read my "about me" page have probably deduced the same thing, but that segue doesn't allow for my shameless self-promotion. Duh.

So, I've been reading a lot of nonfiction about the craft and lifestyle of writing. This is one of *those* reads.

This book was pretty awesome, even though I haven't yet tried my hand at screenwriting and read this primarily as a discussion of plotting/pacing. It made me think about structure and content of my story, pointed me in the direction of some other awesome writers, and made me want to write a screen play EVEN MORE THAN I ALREADY DO. Which is probably bad, since I'm already crazed enough as it is.

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