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6 questions (good) editors ask

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Inciting Incident Complication Crisis Climax and Resolution

The inciting incident is what knocks the world out of balance. The complications are one or more things that keep basically keep the protagonist from putting his world back into order so usually like I heard it described once you know how you write a story  put somebody in a tree throw rocks at them and then let the person get back down out of the tree right? "I always think of a crisis as a question and it always helps," he says. 'It's the question that the protagonist has to answer in the dilemma"

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