![]() Isn’t it a beauty? Now, let’s talk about why it won’t help you. Oh, and now we have percentages instead of page numbers! * Okay, that’s not entirely fair: Brody did officially divide it into acts instead of just counting on us to puzzle out that “Break Into 2” meant starting act 2 rather than chopping the story in half. It’s still the same quasi-outline it was in StC, except with more equivocation on what each section means. Unfortunately, a higher word count hasn’t improved the beat sheet much. ![]() ![]() She doesn’t have any writing rules to take up space, and as we covered last week, her genre chapters are mostly an excuse to apply the beat sheet to different stories. In contrast, Jessica Brody devotes most of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (WaN) to that very same beat sheet. Instead, he moved on to a list of increasingly bizarre writing rules. Blake Snyder positioned the beat sheet as absolutely essential to Save the Cat! (StC), but, despite that, he didn’t really talk about it much. ![]()
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