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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 1

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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How to Deal With an Inciting Incident

The turning point is a complication that arises as our protagonist tries to deal with the inciting incident. We see them progress through trying, trying everything that they can com that they can come up with to deal with what's going on in the inciting cdent. So once all of those are exhausted, they realize that they can't deal with the incident so far. And that's the turning point. That's going to propel them into the rest of the commandments that we'll talk about later. But the turning, the turning point is the tion and progressive means that increasing level of stakes and cost and risk.

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