His method, similar in some ways to Larry Brook’s Story Engineering structure, provides for a series of required “beats” that most successful stories hit, in roughly the same order.Ĭurious to find out what my novel would look like if I structured it according to Blake’s fifteen beats, I set out to really understand the system by first applying it to published books I’d already read and liked. I decided I needed to analyze the high level structure of my story. I turned to the famous screenwriting book, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder ( often used by novelists) for answers. What’s going on? And more importantly, what should I do next?
Even after exploring the story from four different angles, I find that none of them feel quite right. I keep trying to “fix it,” and each time I embark on a new draft I come up with new solutions that take the characters and plot in wholly new directions. I’ve got four completely different drafts of my current work-in-progress, a middle grade novel.
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