Lexicon: Save the Cat

      Save the Cat: is a book (by Blake Snyder), but also a term relating to the moment the reader connects with the main character. Maybe they literally save a cat, or just try to do the right thing, either way the reader is now rooting the main character on for the rest of the book. 

      This is your moral gut-check. Most readers want a main character they can understand (and doesn’t bore them). If you’re more than five to ten pages into the story and can’t decide if you like the main character, then the gut-check didn’t work (some people will argue this gut check should occur in the first two pages).