I’ve been working on a new project today and was using some of Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat to try and work some things out.
I’m wasn’t initially a huge fan of the book, it sort of broke down the process in a way that didn’t totally resonate with me. But I do keep coming back to some of its ideas, and I think that’s the point. Each time I revisit it I take something and refashion it to my own uses. Or atleast reexamine it through a lens that I can get behind.
I think that’s really the point of these “self-help/How to do it” type of books. If you look at them long enough you can usually find a way to make them work for you, whether or not that was the author’s intent or not.
For context, I was using the book to try and improve the logline for the story I’m working on.