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Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects

Deviate

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The Inciting Incident in a Novel

A novel is a world, there's very few novels where it's just one person. There you have this world of characters. The story requires that we put them through obstacles and challenges. A character can choose to solve the problem or make their life more pro-active. In so inciting incident exposes the sort of lie in the status quo. And then i think part of that break into act too, is where the character starts to act.

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