![]() Once our hero arrives in her new world, the Fun and Games can begin. Snyder also says the B story is the place to openly discuss the book’s theme. New characters are introduced here who are upside down versions of the characters we’ve met in the first act. Or Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality who exits the male-dominated FBI to go undercover in the uber-feminine world of beauty contests. Think Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games when she leaves her rural, poverty-stricken home to enter the glitzy, wealthy world of the Capital City. The first beat of Act II, what Snyder calls the B story, introduces the new and upside down world our hero enters when she takes action toward her desire. But for the purposes of this blog, I’m focusing only on the beats (or plot points) in Act II, the Murky Middle.Īct I ends with a catalyst that propels our hero toward her desire and into Act II. Go here to see all 15 beats, and here for great examples of popular movies analyzed beat by beat. But feeling desperate, I followed Snyder’s famous Beat Sheet, his fifteen plot points to move drowning writers from the beginning of their books to the end. What the hell happens there?īlake Snyder’s well-known book on screenwriting, Save the Cat, throws a life jacket to the drowning novelist stuck in the Murky Middle. Right, that place-the big, awful middle part where she’s trying to get her heart’s desire. You know that place-the one that happens after you’ve sent your hero off to find her heart’s desire, but before she actually gets it. I was floundering in the Murky Middle of my novel. ![]()
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