Season 1, Episode 9

SAVES THE CAT

After a little summer hiatus (camping, in-laws, spiral-bound manuscripts from fedex), Kayla and Rachel are back in the podcast saddle and diving deep into the storytelling structure that screenwriters love and novelists love to hate: Save The Cat.

Rachel reveals that she finished a whole-ass book (?!?) and together they break down the Blake Snyder’s iconic 15-beat “beat-sheet” and genre system - using Dinner for Eight and The Woman Tree (working titles) to show how the structure can help shape a novel without crushing your muse.

Along the way we tackle:

-whether all the women or all the men should die in a dystopian future (whoops, we go there)

-The weird masculine energy in the culture right now

-The ex that might actually be the monster in your house (literally or emotionally)

-And our shared rage at the YouTuber who said “why female authors don’t matter” (no, we won’t link it)

There’s also some spicy talk about ghots, sperm vials, and Judd Apatow movies. Plus: why your protagonists’ breakdown in the shower might just be their “Dark Night of The Soul”

Writers, reader sand story-nerds - if you’ve ever wondered whether Save the Cat is helpful or heinous, this one’s for you

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