Genre: Of the ten genres outlined in Save the Cat! I classified this as a Rite of Passage. It is about a boy dealing with significant life change (an adolescent passage) and how he adapts
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Toy Story 3 and Act Structure
Not only does a closer examination of Toy Story 3 provide good insight into genre conventions, it is also a very good example of the act structure that Blake wrote about in Save the Cat! He
Continue ReadingStory Structure and Formula One
So, Mark Webber won the British Grand Prix the other day – despite having to give up part of his car to teammate Sebastian Vettel. The drama of the F1 circuit. Wait a minute! Drama.
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My beautiful wife just bought me Save the Cat! Strikes Back, the last of Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! trilogy, and it got me to thinking about the whole structure ‘argument’ again. Surely it can’t be that
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