Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Pass on this book unless you'd like to write the most formulaic and contrived stories imaginable. This book was recommended to me by a long time screenwriter who heard I was beginning my own project; I bought a copy, read it and immediately found myself wishing I'd saved both my time and money. Self-gratifying at best, Blake Snyder spends half of the book promoting his own screenplays that no one has ever heard of while bashing true classics. The remaining half is spent laying out an almost page by page guide on how to write a story that might sell but likely won't be anything groundbreaking or even good. Snyder attempts to make a science out of an art thus killing any scrap of creativity with his heavy beat layout. If you want to have any type of career in writing (no book is going to *teach* you to be a good writer) avoid this book like the plague.