# Save the Cat Beat Sheet Calculator > Enter your script's page count and get all fifteen Save the Cat beats on the right pages, grouped by act, with a beat sheet template you can copy. Enter your script's page count and get all fifteen Save the Cat beats on the right pages, grouped by act, with a beat sheet template you can copy. Beat sheet ready for a 110-page script. Your beat sheet ## Fifteen beats on 110 pages. The Midpoint lands on page 55. Opens as a new Plot project once you sign in or create a free account. Inkwell keeps this copy for 24 hours. - Act One Pages 1–25 - Act Two Pages 25–85 - Act Three Pages 85–110 Numbered marks are turns that land on one page; the bands are the three acts. ### Act One Pages 1–25 1. Opening Image Page 1 A snapshot of the hero's world and problem before anything changes. 2. Theme Stated Page 5 Someone voices the lesson the hero will need, usually without the hero noticing. 3. Set-Up Pages 1–10 The hero's life, wants and flaws, and the people who will matter later. 4. Catalyst Page 12 The event that disrupts the hero's life and starts the story. 5. Debate Pages 12–25 The hero hesitates, weighs the cost and resists the call. ### Act Two Pages 25–85 1. Break into Two Page 25 The hero chooses to act and steps into the new world of Act Two. 2. B Story Page 30 A second story, often a relationship, that carries the theme. 3. Fun and Games Pages 30–55 The premise in action: the scenes the trailer would show. 4. Midpoint Page 55 A false victory or false defeat that raises the stakes and turns the story. 5. Bad Guys Close In Pages 55–75 Pressure builds from outside and doubt from inside; the team starts to crack. 6. All Is Lost Page 75 The lowest point on the surface: a loss that seems to end any chance of winning. 7. Dark Night of the Soul Pages 75–85 The hero absorbs the loss before finding the way forward. ### Act Three Pages 85–110 1. Break into Three Page 85 The answer arrives, often from what the A and B stories taught together. 2. Finale Pages 85–110 The hero applies the lesson, confronts the problem and changes the world. 3. Final Image Page 110 A mirror of the Opening Image that shows how much has changed. Useful output, not a score ## What this tool gives you ### Beats at your length Snyder places his fifteen beats on a 110-page script. The calculator keeps each beat at the same share of the story, on your page count. ### Acts on one line See where Act One, Act Two and Act Three begin and end, with every turn marked on a single timeline. ### A template to fill Copy the beats as a plain-text beat sheet, one line per beat with its page, ready for your own sentence about each turn. ## How to use it 1. 1 ### Enter the page count Type your target length or pick a common feature length. A 90-page comedy and a 120-page drama get different pages. 2. 2 ### Read the beats by act Each beat shows the page it lands on, or the pages it spans, and what it does for the story. 3. 3 ### Copy the beat sheet Copy the template into your notes or a Plot draft and write one sentence for each beat. ## How to read the result Snyder's pages show where each turn lands in a working 110-page feature. Hold your draft against them: a Midpoint on page 70, or All Is Lost after page 90, points straight at the act that needs cutting or building up. ## Questions writers ask ### Where do the page numbers come from? From Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!, which places the fifteen beats on a 110-page script: the Catalyst on page 12, Break into Two on 25, the Midpoint on 55, All Is Lost on 75 and Break into Three on 85. The calculator scales each page in proportion to your length and rounds it to a whole page. ### Does this work for a TV pilot? Yes. Enter 30 pages for a half-hour pilot or 60 for an hour, and every beat scales with it. For a network show, put your commercial breaks on the beats nearest them: Break into Two, the Midpoint, All Is Lost and Break into Three. ### Do the beats have to land on these exact pages? They mark where each turn sits in a working feature, and a Catalyst a few pages either side reads fine. A Midpoint on page 80 of a 110-page script is the signal: the second act is carrying scenes it doesn't need. ### Can I use it for a novel? Yes, if you plan in pages or chapters. Enter the total and read each beat as a share of the book. The proportions are the same; only the unit changes. ### What is the Blake Snyder beat sheet? It is the fifteen-beat outline Blake Snyder published in Save the Cat! (2005), also called the Save the Cat beat sheet. Each beat has a target page in a 110-page script, and this calculator moves every one of them to your own page count. ## Defined in the glossary - [Beat Sheet](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/beat-sheet) [A short outline of a story’s key moments — the beats — used to plan structure before or during drafting without writing every scene yet.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/beat-sheet) - [Three-Act Structure](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/three-act-structure) [A common story shape: setup (Act One), confrontation (Act Two), and resolution (Act Three), with major turns at the act breaks that re-aim the protagonist's goal and cost.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/three-act-structure) - [Inciting Incident](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/inciting-incident) [The event that breaks the protagonist’s ordinary world and forces the main story to start — early, concrete, and hard to ignore.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/inciting-incident) - [Midpoint](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/midpoint) [The midpoint is the major turn halfway through a story. A false victory, a defeat or a revelation changes what the protagonist wants or how they pursue it, so the second half of the story cannot repeat the first.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/midpoint) - [B-Story](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/b-story) [A B-story is a secondary storyline that runs alongside the main plot, the A-story. It often carries the theme through a relationship, and in TV it is the second plot in an episode, after the A-plot.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/b-story) - [Dark Night of the Soul](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/dark-night-of-the-soul) [The beat near the end of the second act when the hero, after their lowest point, faces the loss and changes in response. It is usually quiet and short, and it is what makes the final act the hero's choice rather than luck.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/dark-night-of-the-soul) - [Act Break](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/act-break) [The turn that ends an act — a cliffhanger or reversal in TV, a major structural shift in features — that re-aims the story’s pressure.](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/act-break) ## Keep working with the draft ### [Free Fountain Screenplay Outline Extractor](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-outline-extractor) [Turn Fountain sections, synopses, scene headings, and opening action into an ordered visual story map with clean Markdown export.](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-outline-extractor) [Open tool](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-outline-extractor) ### [Free Screenplay Pacing Map](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/pacing-map) [See how a draft is distributed across its own clock: action share, scene density, and cast arrival, tenth by tenth, against a published screenplay corpus. Private in your browser.](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/pacing-map) [Open tool](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/pacing-map) ### [Free Screenplay Length Checker](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-length) [Check a feature, pilot, or short against page-count practice, official contest windows, and a published feature corpus — then export a memo you can send with the draft.](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-length) [Open tool](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/screenplay-length) ### [Free Writing Deadline & Word Goal Planner](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/writing-goal-planner) [Turn a word-count or page goal into realistic writing-day targets, weekly pacing, buffer time, milestone dates, and a copyable schedule.](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/writing-goal-planner) [Open tool](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/writing-goal-planner) Write the scenes beat by beat in Plot. 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