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name: book-fiction
description: "Fiction-specific patterns — Save the Cat! 15-beat, Snowflake Method, Hero's Journey, character bible, scene structure."
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# Fiction Patterns

**Save the Cat! 15-Beat** (page %): Opening Image(0-1) → Theme Stated(1-5) → Set-Up(1-10) → Catalyst(10) → Debate(10-20) → Break into Two(20) → B Story(22) → Fun and Games(20-50) → Midpoint(50) → Bad Guys Close In(50-75) → All Is Lost(75) → Dark Night(75-80) → Break into Three(80) → Finale(80-99) → Final Image(99-100).

**Snowflake**: 1-sentence → 1-paragraph → character summaries → expand each → character synopses → 4-page synopsis → detailed profiles → scene list → scene expansions → first draft.

**Hero's Journey** (12): Ordinary World → Call → Refusal → Mentor → Threshold → Tests → Approach → Ordeal → Reward → Road Back → Resurrection → Return.

**Scene structure**: GMC (Goal-Conflict-Disaster) alternates with RDD (Reaction-Dilemma-Decision). Every scene from character motivation. Final scene = hook.

**Character bible**: role, age, appearance, motivation, wound, fear, want vs need, arc (start→turn→end), relationships.

**Chapter hooks**: cliffhanger, question, revelation, twist, narrative linger.

**Subplots**: mirror (same theme diff POV), contrast (opposite outcome), support (info/motivation), convergence (entangle with main).