Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

I could barely get through the first chapter of this book. The advice is decent for writing 101, for someone who has never written before or read any fiction at all, but if your writing is already good, and you want to take it to the next level and make it exceptional, this book is not for you.

Furthermore, if you go look at the authors Goodreads, all the novels she's written are self published with less than 100 ratings, all of them rated around three stars. I don't understand why so many unsuccessful or marginally successful authors start giving advice to others about how to be a successful and excellent novelist. It's like those music industry advice YouTube channels where the owner is an obscure indie artist who makes music nobody listens to, with 5000 listeners on Spotify or something. Like, okay, I have a hard time taking you seriously then. Let's hear it from Ed Sheeran, or from Taylor Swift, both very acclaimed and very popular songwriters. I think it's the same with novel writing, let's hear it from Stephen King or from George R. Martin. I have a hard time taking people's advice seriously if they haven't achieved the goal their advice claims it will get you to.

I think you are all better off reading "On Writing" by Stephen King, unless you've never read any fiction or consumed any storytelling at all, this book isn't for you.