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Save the Cat!

The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

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Save the Cat!

By: Blake Snyder
Narrated by: George Newbern
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Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has 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 10 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 15 beats
  • Creating the perfect beast by using the board to map 40 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 show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.

©2005 Blake Snyder (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Screenwriting Funny Business Cats Thought-Provoking

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Explain it to me like I'm a 10 year old kind of book, although that might be the point of the whole thing...useful for someone just starting out.

simplistic

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This book will skyrocketed your capacity to be a screenwriter! It is highly recommended and an industry essential.

Truly the last screenwriting book you'll ever need

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Having an audible version made life so much easier as I could listen on the move.

Lots of practical advice and industry tips.

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A remarkable insight into screenwriting full of humour, empathy and great advice. Holds your attention throughout just like a great movie. He is a master of his craft. Brilliant.

Insight and high energy

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Really enjoyable and incredibly helpful would very much recommend to any kind of writer. I'd love to hear more.

Incredibly helpful

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Not only was this audio book extremely educational it was entertaining. It feels like an essential read/listen for any aspiring film writer. I remember seeing this recommended multiple times on Facebook groups I am in year's ago, and then when it came up agan I thought I should try it out. It was worth every penny.

Brilliant

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Although probably not as useful in audio form, this is an excellent book to give you a structure to start writing any story or screenplay.

Want to write but don't know where to start?

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Love it so much. perfect for screenwriters and learning on the go after reading the actual book

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brilliant insight on how Hollywood works and script writing, told in with lots of examples to give better context

well scripted

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If you're not moved to start writing something, anything, you need to listen again, immediately!

Inspirational

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