Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.

Update: 2024-08-02

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Blake Snyder's famous Save the Cat plotting--where he describes fifteen beats a movie screenplay should have--is useful for us novelists. And wonderful setting descriptions from Willa Cather. Also, what's wrong with this sentence: He scrunched his eyebrows in confusion? And Neil Gaiman's eight rules of writing.

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Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.

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Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.

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Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.