One good example was Seer of Shadows by Avi. And I’ll be darned if all of the beats weren’t there in just about every novel we read. The Middle Grade Lunch Break group read Save the Cat!, and for several months afterwards, as an exercise, we applied the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet to the middle grade novels that we were reading. Zootopia, for example, is a model Save the Cat! movie: it has a strong theme, shows good character growth for all of the characters, not just the main character, and hits all of the plot points Snyder describes.īut the beat sheet isn’t just for movies. It’s especially easy to see in Disney and Pixar films, as well as other kids’ movies. Many movies do use the beat sheet, created by Blake Snyder. You might think that Save the Cat ! is just a book about screenwriting, given that its subtitle is “The Last Book On Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need.”
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