This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Save the cat! è il manuale di scrittura per il cinema che a Hollywood tutti hanno letto. Ti spiega come trasformare la tua storia in una sceneggiatura a prova di bomba. Ci trovi:– i quattro elementi per scrivere una logline perfetta– le sette leggi fisiche della sceneggiatura– i 10 generi in cui ogni film può essere catalogato e perché è importante riconoscere a quale categoria appartiene la tua sceneggiatura– in che modo il tuo Eroe deve ubbidire all’Idea del t...

Después del éxito de ¡Salva al gato!, una guía que se convirtió en un clásico entre guionistas profesionales y amateurs, Blake Snyder publicó en 2007 ¡Salva al gato! va al cine. Escrito con la misma agilidad y gracia que su precedente, en él el autor insiste en su teoría de que los verdaderos «géneros cinematográficos» no son los clásicos (acción, amor, oeste, policíaco...) sino una serie de diez situaciones que se repiten en las películas que más recordamos: el monstruo ...

Blake Snyder, uno de los guionistas de más éxito de Hollywood, ofrece una pintura ágil, divertida y franca de la trastienda de la industria cinematográfica. ¡Salva al gato! hace referencia a una de sus infalibles teorías para lograr que las ideas resulten más atractivas y cualquier guión más satisfactorio y, sobre todo, susceptible de venderse. Se trata de un término acuñado por el propio Snyder en alusión a una escena, absolutamente ineludible, en que el público va a conocer al p...

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "Save the Cat!," author and screenwriter Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years.

Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! 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, others include these: •The four elements of every winning logline •The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics •The ten genres that every movie ever made can...

Blake Snyder, uno de los guionistas de más éxito de Hollywood, ofrece una pintura ágil, divertida y franca dela trastienda de la industria cinematográfica. ¡Salva al gato! hace referencia a una de sus infalibles teoríaspara lograr que las ideas resulten más atractivas y cualquier guión más satisfactorio y, sobre todo, susceptiblede venderse. Se trata de un término acuñado por el propio Snyder en alusión a una escena, absolutamenteineludible, en que el público va...

In the perfect companion piece to his first book, Blake Snyder delivers even more insider information gleaned from a twenty-year track record as one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters. Designed for screenwriters, novelists, and movie fans, this book gives listeners key breakdowns of the fifty most instructional movies from the past thirty years. From M*A*S*H to Crash, Alien to Saw, and 10 to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snyder reveals how screenwriters in the past ...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with ...

The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon.Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places ...