Inciting incident ideas

What is an inciting incident? It’s something that happens to your protagonist that changes the direction of his/her life. The option to remain in the status quo is taken completely off the table. It needs to happen in the first quarter of your story. If you wait any longer, your readers will yawn, reach for a … Continue reading 20 Inciting Incident Ideas

With fifteen examples of great inciting incidents, we’ll show you how to make yours that much better with a free inciting incident generator.

A well-written inciting incident will make your readers ask for more, and turn your pages non-stop, just to know what comes next and how our hero is going to make it out of this. #novelwriting #nanowrimo #howtowritetheincitingincident #inspiration #novel #howtowriteanovel #incitingincident #firstchapter

Abbie Emmons Inciting Incident

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✨New Series✨ Story Structure Basics First up is the classic five-act story structure: 1. Exposition: introduce the characters, provide some backstory, and end with an inciting incident that disrupts their daily life. 2. Rising Action: Conflict begins to rise & character starts to pursue their goal. 3. Climax: The character(s) thinks they’ve achieved their goal, tension is at it’s highest, can be a major turning point in the plot. 4. Falling Action: The character(s) must face consequences and…

Sometimes there is nothing better than the classics. Today we examine Freytag's Pyramid, the most common plot structure in novel writing.

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