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Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Page 25 is the place where I always go to first in a screenplay someone has handed me (we all have our reading quirks) to see “what happens on 25.” I want to know 1) if anything happens and 2) if this screenwriter knows that something should happen. And I mean something big.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
THE BLAKE SNYDER BEAT SHEET
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
It happens on page 25.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee • 1 highlight
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the necessity of hitting your act break on page 25, hitting the midpoint and All Is Lost hard, and the need to have conflict in every scene.