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It was only when I realized that this book is really putting the flesh on the bones of his previous books, that I found out just how useful this book is.

While reading it section by section, it didn’t appear to zip along at the pace of his previous books, but that’s because it attaches you only to those parts that apply to you. Howzat?

Save The Cat – The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need – laid out the basics to help any new (or current) screenplay writer. His second book – Goes To The Movies – gave examples of how his screenplay structure worked in big name movies. The third book is all about being a screenplay writer – in real life.

Fortunately he takes you right to the heart of the main focus of problems you may have in writing your multi-million dollar screenplay. You’ll find out about the seven warning signs you might have a good idea and the five questions to keep your story’s spine straight.

Perhaps more important to some rather than others there’s also the 5 point finale to finish any story; this is the part that many people appear to have the greatest amount of problems with. We don’t all need bland obvious Hollywood endings, guys.

The style is still very easy reading, like you’re talking to a friend, a good friend. Judging by his website’s comment before and after he died, he was that friend to a lot of people.

Sadly, Blake Snyder’s death has taken away a great guru from the screenwriting world. He’s one of the few that has been there and got the t-shirt and then let us all know what he knew.

I found the start of the book hard going, but only because I didn’t have the problems that he was explaining away. Only when I reached the parts of greater interest, did the words finally hit me like a punch as I latched on to whatever move I could make next, which instantly sent me running to my desk to make some notes.

After all, the beauty of this type of book is that it might only take one paragraph from the whole book to change your latest screenplay and by action, perhaps your whole life.

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