As for the reflection on opening image, I think for this story it would be cool if in the first scene on the train, she (Kelly?) had an issue with the thief stealing from ordinary people, by pickpocketing at the start. And then in the end they could be on the beach, and someone drops their wallet and the thief returns it. The theme could still be the trials for the "American Dream", and they understand that it's not other people that are the enemy that's why they steal an expensive egg from a museum and not an individual. It's a small character arc but still, something. 😅

The plot generator is nice!

This was awesome... I wrote out my beats at the same time as watching and it really helped so much... thank you!

You are an impressive person. I just wanted to point that out.

Excellent outline with such a good description of the details along each beat. Thank you for making this. 🙌😎

You going through the process was a great example! I really appriciate this!

“Sketchily-minded” is my new favorite descriptor.

I like how while taking notes on the video i was also running a small movie in my mind. The story was interesting and your video is very useful as i was struggling to find a proper story structure to work my story on and i am excited try it. Thanx alot!

This is a very timely video, thanks!

The lighting/color/styling during the “actual part of the video” is all lovely. Also, I love this channel so much!

Thank you for this! Definitely adding this to my wheelhouse!

Interesting how well screenwriting techniques work for prose. I wrote my novel after reading Sid Field’s book on the short screenplay.

Very helpful thanks!

Great explanation! Thank you :)

You have the vigor! Keep it, and don’t let go.

Thanks so much for this, as I decided yesterday to go with Save the Cat instead of 27 Chapter! But I must say that this outline has a decided lack of goblin moths 😉😆(if you know, you know). Also, would y'all ever make a video about how to develop subplots and balance them out within your plot? I'm struggling with subplots in general

Thank you so much you channel very clear and helpful. I am law student from Thailand

I think at the end it should have a dilemma: either the egg (being rich) or the friendship (relation with brother Greg maybe?) There's more potential in this story. Still, nicely done in 20 minutes!

great stuff.thanks .

Fantastic! Would you create one of these for every character???

Always grateful to Shaelin for everything she does

I’m currently editing my first novel, and in some spots I feel like something is wrong, but I can’t pinpoint why it’s wrong. Do you have any advice for ways I can identify why something in my novel isn’t working?

What is the theme stated for harry potter first book? Is theme stated completely skipped there?

Anyone think this is only good if its genre writing for a novel or can I also apply it to literary fiction?

the beats remind me of the Movie taxi Driver. I need to watch it again and try to see the beats!

can you suggest a great book on comedy writing sketch and sitcom

Love this, what if the brother was a cop?

Just watched the Christmas film Klaus and realised how it's a great example of Save the Cat

Are each beats chapters?

How do you structure your novels, if not using plot structures? :) Just asking out of curiosity!

Can somebody please tell me what the "beat" means here? In what meaning is it used? Or how can we simply translate it into another language?

In the video you mention links to resources ... I assume that is from the original video .. perhaps you can add the link to the original video so we can check out the links .. thanks for a great video

Nice video, clear. You forgot the post-credits scene: Olivia and Kelly raise glasses of champagne in a toast, and a plastic Fabergé egg rolls into frame. They look up to see Greg in sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, who says, "Really? St. Petersburg? Well, since we're all here, know of any good museums?-I feel I'm about to have enough to put a bid on an item or two."

I'm just looking at the Catalyst and OCD by Rhett and Link is playing in my head: Missing parantheses! Uneven, capris! Dun dun.... Googling askew....

I appreciate this video. Speaking only for myself, it would be easier for me to follow if you weren't bouncing back and forth between beats. Perhaps, some day, you could work out the sequence and content of the beats before you turn on the camera and then fill in the beats without bouncing back and forth. Thank you.

Also, this is long and probably unnecessary, but I wanted to share this mindblowing revelation i had while trying to use this structure to get my story concept unstuck (it's not really mindblowing for skilled writers, probab, but i'm a beginner and my mind still has to get flexible about this whole hellcraft). I'm still in the early stages, so I don't know how good this will work out, but at least it got me out of my block and helped me understand my plot better -- i thought maybe it can help someone else, too! So, I'm plotting a romance, but the relationship development I had in mind felt way too complex for this structure to be applicable to it (which i think is partly due to my internalized mysoginy: in order not to feel guilty for writing romance, i somehow feel the need to make plots super weird). Anyway, then BOOM, I realized that I didn't need _one_ save the cat beat sheet; I needed three. I just needed to break my story into parts and apply a tiny Save the Cat to each of them. At the Finale of the first part, a relationship milestones gets unlocked (eg. now my characters trust each other), and the second part can begin with a new milestone in mind. Now everything suddenly feels consequential and organic, the plot is getting chemistry, the pacing feels right and I'm super thrilled about my story again. This has another advantage. A big problem i was having was that it felt wrong to choose one of the two characters as the overall protagonist. At the same time, I feel Save the Cat is much easier if you focus it on only one character; I don't think i have the skills yet to weave two character developments in the same beat structure, giving them both the same importance and keeping it balanced. But now, I can have each character as the protagonist of each of the first two parts; for the third part, well, I'll see, but it should be much easier to write them both because now, rather than reacting to each other, they'll have to react to the world around them to reach a common goal. I don't know if any of this makes sense, but I thought that my thought process could be interesting for someone writing the same thing - if anything to just learn from my mistakes :*

Next video, Beat the Dog; a moment where a character is beaten either physically or mentally.

"but I love that for them" 🤣

Back in the sixties, the big relief from all the caper and heist movies coming out of our ears, was to finally hear someone furtively whisper that they weren't fun, and that stealing is wrong, and it costs somebody, the victims who have to pay the price. Back then, those movies depended on the perception that the only ones being stolen from were insurance companies, already thought to be thieves, themselves. That gave it a Robin Hood quality: steal from rich thieves, and give it to yourselves: sexy, a-moral sociopath-ettes, who were of course, the "representatives" of the poor, as well as the recipients of the proceeds. But no one bothered to mention that the insurance companies would not take a loss, but would pass it on to people who could least afford a financial loss. The ever-popular, sexy, sociopaths stonewalled the cries of the poor being priced out of survival. Like James Bond, those gazillions of fashionable, 60s sociopath movies, were never all that much fun. And here you thought it was a "summer of love". Amorality is boring, as well as heart-sickening. All the drama is between right or wrong, just or unjust, faithful or treacherous, merciful or ruthless.

Save the Egg?

Wow

Why is it named "Save the Cat" ?

I think I felt in love with this woman.

is this why that one she-ra episode is named save the cat

Who doesn't want "Friendship Shenanigans"?

Save the cat? My dog does not approve of the title. 😛

20:13 Uh, no. Degenerate characters cost too much to root for. At this point, I'm asking for my money back for the book/movie. I don't need cutsie evil in my brain.

Nice Typing-Speed. Not God-Like, but decent. Not like mine, but decent.