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Save the Cat!® Strikes Back: More Trouble for Screenwriters to Get Into … and Out Of by Blake Snyder
reickel's review against another edition
4.0
Review 2: 4.5 stars rounded down--I love the Save the Cat approach to story and Blake Snyder's positivity. There's a lot of (maybe not yet totally outdated) discussion of Hollywood practices in here, that I personally don't connect with or care about, but the discussion of story rocks here. Take what you can, when you can.
timdams007's review against another edition
3.0
More of the same formula, but still with plenty of interesting examples and anecdotes. Fast, easy read, but nowhere as "groundbreaking" as the first book in the series.
sohare1981's review against another edition
2.0
I have to admit, I'm not into writing screen plays...that's not my thing. I do love to write and hope someday to sell a novel, I read Jessica Brody's version of Save the Cat! (Writes a Novel) and thought this book would give me even more insight into writing. I did get a couple ideas, the major one being you can use this 15 beat sheet and use it to plot scenes in your story. The last two chapters on "the business" side of things I don't know if they apply to novel writers like they do screenplay writers. (Do we need an agent, a lawyer, and producer....maybe, maybe not. I've heard having an agent, and a publisher (in screenplay I guess that would be the producer)...but novel writers need lawyers too? He also talks a lot about having to live in LA, but writers don't really need that do we?;
So there are some useful tidbits here and there but not everything translates fro script writers to novel writers. And I get that, his book is about screenplays, because that is what he did. I'm not so sure this was a necessary read for someone like me who wants to do novel writing.
So there are some useful tidbits here and there but not everything translates fro script writers to novel writers. And I get that, his book is about screenplays, because that is what he did. I'm not so sure this was a necessary read for someone like me who wants to do novel writing.
raven_morgan's review against another edition
4.0
Lots more useful stuff in here - mostly directed at screenwriters (with a good portion of the book directed at screenwriters and giving them specific career advice), but as with the first book, many of the rules are just as applicable to fiction writers.
slbutcherauthor's review against another edition
5.0
Whether or not you're a screenwriter (I'm not), if you are a WRITER, you need to listen to this book. And then get back to work.
anna_catherman's review
4.0
Unlike its namesake, Save the Cat! Strikes Back is not better than its predecessor. It falls just a bit short of the admittedly high standard set by the original Save the Cat! book. While the first half of this book is excellent, I personally found the latter half of the book a bit confusing and unhelpful. That's primarily because I was reading primarily for generic storytelling advice for use in my novelling, short story writing, etc, rather than actually writing and selling screenplays, though. So this book does its job reasonably well. No major bombshells, but worth the read if you're interested in story troubleshooting or selling screenplays, and/or if you loved the original.
a_kindle_bookworm's review
This was a school book I read a few months ago but I forgot to include. I forget the actual date I read it so I'm just putting in today's date.
michaelkerr's review against another edition
4.0
A fun read breaking down the story beats of a screenplay. Useful tips for all kinds of writers.
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