Save the Cat!® Podcast: Your First Ten Pages

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Save the Cat!® Podcast: Your First Ten Pages

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Nov 4, 2016

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The foundation of both your story and your hero's emotional needs.
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Does Your Hero Have to Transform?: Defining transformation. by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder on Tootsie: The thesis world of Act One vs. the upside-down world of Act Two by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder on Theme Stated and the Beats of Blank Check: The first of newly discovered Blake Snyder audios by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Save the Cat!® Podcats: Your B Story: The purpose of your B Story and your B Story Character. by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Can Your Antagonist Switch Sides?: Answers to a challenging question by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Why Stakes Should Be Primal: Ask moral questions. by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Your Theme Stated: How and when you use this beat. by Save The Cat! Podcast
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Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder Explains His Story Beats – Part Two: Fun & Games and the Midpoint by Save The Cat! Podcast
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