How to Place Turning Points on a Beat Sheet

To learn story structure, we have to get comfortable with a lot of new terms: acts, turning points, beats, Midpoint, Black Moment, pinch points, etc. And just to add another level of difficulty to the task, story structure instructors tend to use different terms.

Is a “Save the Cat”-styleCatalyst the same thing as anInciting Incident? (Answer: Yes.) Is a Larry Brooks “Story Engineering”-styleFirst Plot Point the same thing as the Plot Whisperer’s End of the Beginning? (Answer: Yes again.)

How d...