Blake Snyder • Save the Cat

once felt this, but now I feel this. Stories must reflect change of some kind. It need not always be positive change, and the change need not be monumental. In fact, stories about failure, embarrassment, and shame are fantastic. Stories about trying desperately to achieve a goal and failing spectacularly are beloved. Even when progress is made, the

In a sense, stories are about change. And the measuring stick that tells us who succeeds and who doesn’t is seen in the ability to change.

stories are about change. And the measuring stick that tells us who succeeds and who doesn’t is seen in the ability to change.

when we can chart the growth and change each character undergoes in the course of a movie, it’s a poem.

In order to show how everyone grows and changes in the course of your story, you must take them all back to the starting point.

The theme of every Golden Fleece movie is internal growth; how the incidents affect the hero is, in fact, the plot.

theme of every Golden Fleece movie is internal growth; how the incidents affect the hero is, in fact, the plot.

It’s not the incidents, it’s what the hero learns about himself from those incidents that makes the story work.