Save the Cat Beat Sheet: All 15 Beats Explained
A clear walkthrough of all 15 Save the Cat beats, what each one does, where writers get them wrong, and how to map them before you draft your screenplay.
Sarah Brooks
Narrative Designer & Writing Educator
Sarah Brooks works where storytelling craft meets visual media. Dramatic writing at NYU Tisch, then story consulting across film, television, and video games. She is most interested in structural frameworks - Save the Cat, the Hero's Journey, the Sequence Method - not as recipes but as ways to find out what a story is actually doing. She runs workshops at Austin Film Festival, GDC, and several university programmes. Her teaching is hands-on: map the story visually before you write it linearly.
Areas of Expertise
Save the Cat methodologyHero's Journey frameworksCross-media storytellingNarrative designVisual story mapping