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Ep. 569: The Two Halves of the Inciting Event

Helping Writers Become Authors

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Call to Adventure in a Romance

In a romance, the insiting event is where the two love interests meet for the first time. In real life, you very ly walked past one in the last five minutes. If accepting the call is as easy as that, then you're probably looking at an inciting event that really isn't going to change the protagonist's life. The refusal represents the importance found in all the second halves of the major structural beads.

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