Book - Save the Cat by Blake Snyder

This will be Writing/Critique/Discussion feature to the Writing Book Club - Authors & Writing Advice. We will divide into writing level appropriate groups and follow the rules outlined in Steering the Craft by Ursula LeGuin.

Read the book, apply the techniques to your writing, and experience a critique (500 words MAXIMUM for critique read).

Read the writing phenomenon that has been a best seller for 15 years. This book is aimed at screenwriters but appropriate for all writers. 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, including: 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.