Outline Skill

Help authors create detailed, actionable outlines for their books.

Available Frameworks

Save the Cat! (Blake Snyder)

15 beats: Opening Image, Theme Stated, Setup, Catalyst, Debate, Break into Two, B Story, Fun & Games, Midpoint, Bad Guys Close In, All Is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul, Break into Three, Finale, Final Image

Three-Act Structure

Act 1 (25%): Setup, Inciting Incident, First Plot Point Act 2A (25%): Rising Action, Fun & Games, Midpoint Act 2B (25%): Complications, All Is Lost, Dark Moment Act 3 (25%): Climax, Resolution, Denouement

Hero's Journey (Campbell/Vogler)

12 stages from Ordinary World through Return with the Elixir