Fiction Craft Blog

Blake Snyder’s book Save the Cat! offers a blueprint for screenwriters on how to draft a successful film script. The book draws on his experience as a Hollywood screenwriter and outlines a beat sheet that describes the different points and pacing in many winning films. Somewhat later, Jessica Brody transformed the insights into a craft book for novel writing called Save the Cat! Writes a Novel . Her book includes a similar beat sheet, and she also categorises novels based on

This post discusses: exposition in fiction, especially in science fiction and fantasy writing contextual distance, a new concept for understanding the need for exposition exposition across genres and the purposes it serves Exposition in science fiction and fantasy stories Science fiction and fantasy authors create new imaginary worlds. These need some explaining to the reader. While worldbuilding is best when it's sprinkled in, it's common for authors to drop into infodumpin