I picked up Jane K. Cleland’s Mastering Suspense Structure & Plot assuming that it would be similar in approach to Save the Cat! Writes a Novel— a general plot structure applied to various suspense sub-genres. In reality, it’s more of a treatise on managing pace...
One could argue Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! is one of the most influential books on story structure, not just in the screenwriting community for which it was originally written but in the fiction realm that adopted his format just as readily. It’s no surprise that...