This is a really great novel guidebook

After reading more than two dozen books on writing (fiction, non-fiction, essays, just the act of writing, writing advice by famous authors, etc) I was starting to see the edges of that universe. What more could be learned about writing, especially something that would help me with my current project, a literary novel? Then I found Save The Cat! Writes A Novel, The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need, Jessica Brody's homage and adaptation of a system based on another book I had no idea existed: Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, by Blake Snyder. I was stunned. This was new territory, and a serious book on structuring the fiction novel. I was able to immediately plug it into my existing novel and see where my plot point beats needed to be. I won't rant here but I'll say this is good stuff, perhaps a bit dryer than the title suggests, but it's not trying to distract the writer, it's trying to help while not getting in the way, the sign of a good professional undertaking.

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