Savannah Gilbo

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Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice · #261. 5 Mistakes Writers Make Using the Save the Cat! Beat Sheet · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

this point in time. podcast-host

And of course you could come up with 20 possible answers, right? podcast-host

Maybe your protagonist's husband leaves her. podcast-host

Maybe she loses her job. podcast-host

Maybe her best friend betrays her. podcast-host

Maybe she gets physically injured. podcast-host

Maybe she breaks her leg, right? podcast-host

And any of those events could be devastating to your protagonist, and all of them could belong in your novel. podcast-host

But if the murder investigation is your main plot if you're writing a crime or a mystery story, then you need to make sure that whatever you choose for a moment, like the all is lost, also affects that central thread. podcast-host

So if I were coaching you through this exercise, instead of asking, okay, we need to brainstorm the all is lost, what's something really bad that could happen to your character? podcast-host

I would instead ask you something like within the podcast-host

Context of the story you're telling within a crime, within a mystery story, what could happen here that makes solving the crime feel further out of reach than ever? podcast-host

So it would be the all is lost in terms of that central plot thread, right? podcast-host

And just to give you some examples, maybe this is something like a key piece of evidence is proven unreliable. podcast-host

Maybe the suspect that she was certain committed the murder couldn't possibly podcast-host

Have done it. podcast-host

Or maybe she's removed from the case just as she realized everything she thought she knew was wrong. podcast-host

Right? podcast-host

So those all would qualify as all is lost moments that are in that central plot thread. podcast-host

They have a direct impact on the crime or the protagonist's ability to solve the crime. podcast-host

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