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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

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The Inciting Incident

Is it okay if your inciting incident happens before the book starts, if it happens off page and is only alluded to? I get this question a lot from my creator writing students because I'll go the murder that happened 20 years ago. Even though that was the original inciting incident, you do still need something to answer the question as to why the story is beginning where you are beginning it. So it needs a present-day inciting incident as well. You know, I kind of think about Mayor of Easttown. But there's so much buried in that Kate Winslet characters past.

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