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The 5 Commandments of Storytelling

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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Inciting Incidents - Commandment Number Two

An inciting incident must, what it must do, is arouse a reaction by your protagonist. So so we have to have an inciting incident. But is there also good and bad inciting incidents? Oh, sure, yes. There's a you know, it's like everyday life. Sometimes the inciting incident is fantastic, or it seems to be fantastic. And then there are terrible ones tooyou, your dog gets hit by a car, you know. Yet yet, in exciting incidents, and also a good idea to mix em up. You want things that are a, you know, dynamic and that. It it leads to commandment number two. The conflict has to escalate. Ah

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