A review by karenholmes
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

4.0

I tend to read (or re-read) a few books about writing every year. Sometimes I do it for fun, but most of the times I'm doing it to find some clues for something I'm writing or want to write at the moment or the near future. In this case, this is a bit of a NaNoWriMo prep... I want to be able to have a loose structure and see where everything fits, but for now it hasn't done the trick.
Anyway, it is a fun book, it's easily read and it works. As a writer you can find pieces of wisdom and you may find the clue to fix a story. It's aimed at screen writers but novelists can benefit from it too. In certain way, it also reminds me of Alexandra Sokoloff's approach to stoy.