So before our heroes can find that true path to real transformation, we have to bring them so low, so far into despair, that they have no other choice but to change. Change the right way. No matter which direction your hero was headed in the Bad Guys Close In beat (upward or downward), all heroes must eventually fall. And fall they will! That’s the function of the All Is Lost. It’s a single-scene beat (one scene or one chapter), approximately 75 percent of the way through the novel, in which something happens to your hero that tosses them deep, deep down into defeat.
