Lance Armstrong Saves a Cat

There's this trick in screenwriting/storytelling called "Saving the Cat" in which you have your protagonist do something good, say on page fifteen or so of your screenplay, that way when the movie ends, and your character beats back the bad guys, the audience will be glad for him, and feel contentment about the story they just experienced. It's true in life too.

It was troubling today, then, to see Alberto Contador bashing his teammate Lance Armstrong in a press conference in Spain. Contador won

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Published on July 27, 2009 23:40
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