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In novels and movies, the catalyst is the event, the point in time, where an event occurs that alters the life of the protagonist. It\u2019s the harbinger of change. Jessica Brody, in Save the Cat Writes a Novel<\/em>, writes, \u201cThe Catalyst will crash land in your hero\u2019s life and create so much destruction, your hero will have no choice but to do something different. Try something new. Go somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n Each of us is the protagonist in our own story. And most catalysts involve synchronicity.<\/p>\n The Catalyst is one of the fifteen beats that screenwriter Blake Snyder identifies in story telling in Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting That You\u2019ll Ever Need.<\/em> It can come as bad news, a divorce, getting fired. It may arrive in the form of seeing the spirit of your dad in the back seat of your car, a Near Death Experience, an alien encounter, a spiritual or creative epiphany. But all catalysts have the same thing in common: you\u2019re kicked out of your status quo thinking and banished from your\u00a0 comfort box, the matrix where you\u2019ve been living.<\/p>\n In the movie Romancing the Stone<\/em>, the catalyst occurs with the package delivered to Joan Wilder \u2013 Kathleen Stone. In J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone,<\/em> it\u2019s the arrival of mysterious letters that Harry\u2019s Uncle Vernon won\u2019t let him see and the arrival of Hagrid, announcing that Harry is a wizard and has been accepted into Hogwarts.<\/p>\n In Stephen King\u2019s Misery<\/em>, Brody identifies the catalyst as the moment when Annie Wilkes finishes Paul\u2019s Misery\u2019s Child and discovers that Paul \u201ckilled off the main character, putting an end to her favorite series…she goes ballistic…then storms out of the room and tells Paul she\u2019s leaving before she does something unwise.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s the equivalent in our lives now? Well, for us, it’s the January 20 Inauguration.<\/p>\n Stay tuned! Our newest book is based on the ideas in our Mystical Underground<\/em>\u00a0 podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In novels and movies, the catalyst is the event, the point in time, where an event occurs that alters the life of the protagonist. It\u2019s the harbinger of change. Jessica Brody, in Save the Cat Writes a Novel, writes, … Continue reading