What Is an Inciting Incident?

An inciting incident can be as simple as, you know, the last camel died at noon. Causal means it wasa cause by some person doing something active to another person. Coincidence is something falls out of the sky, or there is a snow storm,. The universe is behaving indifferently, but up ending the world of the protagonist or the oprotagonists goes in. You intuitively know whether or not you're cooking with gas when you're writing.