Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies
by Blake Snyder · Blake Snyder
Blake Snyder's companion to Save the Cat!, breaking down fifty films into beat sheets organized under his ten story genres such as Monster in the House and Buddy Love. Readers learn to recognize each genre's required elements and apply them to their own scripts.
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More resources on Genre Conventions
Bang2Write Genre Guides
Practical breakdowns of genre tropes and how to subvert them
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The Writer’s Journey
Christopher Vogler's adaptation of Joseph Campbell's monomyth for storytellers, laying out the twelve stages of the hero's journey and eight recurring character archetypes, illustrated with film examples. Readers can map a story's structure onto these stages and diagnose where a plot stalls.