The Last Book on (Screen)writing You’ll Ever Need

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Save The Cat! offersinsights to write screenplays but also novels. Blake Snyder founds basic to put the ‘Save the Cat’ scene into movies. It’s the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something—like saving a cat—that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.

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The perfect hero is the one who offers the most conflict in the situation, has the longest emotional journey, and has a primal goal we can all root for...