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Save the Cat!

How to structure your novel (felines optional)

Nov 10, 2023
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Continuing this month’s theme, structure, I’m reaching up into some branches to grab Save the Cat! Writes a Novel.

Blake Snyder originally developed the approach for screenwriting and Jessica Brody has applied it to novel-writing.

The title refers to the protagonist doing something likeable early on—like saving a cat—to get us on their side. Save the Cat…

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