Literature
5 Tips for Writing Your Story's Inciting Incident
5 Tips for Writing Your Story's Inciting Incident
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 2 “The Inciting Incident”
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“The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.”
-Donald Miller
Once you have completed your Beginning plot-point, in which you establish the beginnings of your plot, world, and characters, your next one will be the Inciting Incident. The Inciting Incident is the point of the story at which your pr