I've just finished reading screenwriting book, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, which claims to be the only book on screenwriting you'll ever need. Wish I'd known that before I waded through Robert McKee's book, Story. An excellent, if intimidating read, much like his seminars, which I've attended. The cat book tells it like it is, in a more commercial sense but also makes you feel like you're one of the guys, a screenwriter. Which gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, I admit.
As with all these books, you read the list of films they've written and think...never heard of it, or, hmmm, a film for the Hallmark channel, impressive? You aspire to be Speilberg or the Coen brothers naturally, so what can I learn from these guys? Well, they know the business and the craft of writing a script and selling it - You know nothing, even if you think you're Shakespeare...
By the way, the save the cat law of screenwriting is simply that your hero has to do something when we meet him that makes us want him to win - like saving a cat...
I don't believe I have that in my script, which means I have a 'black hole' in my script. Here kitty kitty...
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