![]() ![]() ![]() I ended up rewriting my entire novel using this method that Blake Snyder laid out for screenwriters - and I got an agent for that rewrite. ![]() ![]() Then I thought, what if I took these 15 beats and applied them to the novel I was trying to publish? Well, that became my first experiment with the Save the Cat! method. It broke down screenplays into these 15 beats or like a blueprint you could follow.īut what I found when I read this book was that these 15 beats didn't just apply to screenplays: they applied to stories in general. It became clear when I was introduced to this book called Save the Cat! It was a screenwriting guide originally written by Blake Snyder, a screenwriter. I didn't know what structuring a story entailed. I quickly learned that I didn't know what a story was. How can you be a good writer without knowing how to tell a story? I thought the two things went together. They all said the same thing: you're a good writer but you don't know how to tell a story. Flash back to about a little over 15 years ago: I was trying and failing to get my first manuscript represented by an agent and get it published - but I kept getting rejected repeatedly.īut there was a common thread running through my rejection letters. Before I get started, I just wanna give you a quick overview of why I am talking to you today. ![]()
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