Feeling stuck? If you’re faced with a bit of writer’s block, use the structure to revitalize your creative juices. Try using sticky notes, or index cards, or even the online Story Structure Software on the website. Have an idea for your next novel? Use the structure to plot it out. Then she goes step by step, detailing the structure with page numbers as well. For example, she explains the Superhero genre, Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World, by using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. She names ten genres and then applies the structure to each one. Jessica Brody’s Save the Cat! is chock-full of examples from established novels that we all know and love. They have to have a moment that makes the audience think, “sure they launder money and just stole that car, but they really love their mother.” Or, “they’re angry and unkind to puppies, but they caught the baseball and threw it back to those kids, maybe they can be redeemed.” And then we’re in for the ride. 
The title of the book comes from the idea that to make a character likable they have to metaphorically save a cat.
Have you ever heard someone talking about a character’s “Dark Night of the Soul” or when the “Bad Guys Close In,” and thought, dark night of the what? That’s Save the Cat.
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