#SAVE THE CAT LOGLINE GENERATOR HOW TO#

They help explain loglines and how to write good ones, and are supplements to the book, which I highly recommend, but also are better cheat sheets than the book so I recommend both. Thanks to you, Save the Cat continues to be the 1-selling set of books on both screenwriting and novel writing. This blueprint applies to every genre, not just big action thrillers or mysteries. It is an integral part of the Save the Cat Beat Sheet which helps writers structure their stories in an engaging way. Recently I’ve been needing to revisit loglines and I found these blogs about the teachings from the highly appraised book Save The Cat. The Five-Point Finale is a blueprint for breaking down the Finale beat (the last 20 of your novel) into a satisfying ending that feels earned. The loglines that put movies in limbo or movie purgatory. My brother and I ended up starting a shortly lived “Logline Limbo” blog that documented such bad loglines.

Investigations into a Columbian drug ring reveal a distribution network through banana exports. The best you can do is learn by reading and studying what has already proven to be successful and then apply those lessons to your screenplays and what fits well with your vision. But much like with screenwriting, there's no secret formula to success. Most of the good ones I came up with ended up being joke loglines like this one I made for a potential Bananagrams movie: Writing a compelling and engaging logline is an art form unto itself. I read this book a while ago and it got me on a logline writing frenzy.

Save the cat logline generator