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    Carol D. Gray, Middle Grade Author
    Writing the Murky Middle: How Blake Snyder's Save the Cat Can Help

    Writing the Murky Middle: How Blake Snyder's Save the Cat Can Help

    I was floundering in the Murky Middle of my novel. You know that place—the one that happens after you’ve sent your hero off to find her heart’s desire, but before she actually gets it. Right, that place—the big, awful middle part where she’s trying to get her heart’s desire. What the hell happens there? Blake Snyder’s well-known book on screenwriting, Save the Cat, throws a life jacket to the drowning novelist stuck in the Murky Middle. Some people love this book. Others crit
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