inciting incident Archive
In my current scene, my hero has made it to the site of the Inciting Incident, an event that destroyed her home, and has so far been reacting in shock as I describe the extent of the destruction. Now, the …
At the end of my last writing session, I left my hero almost at the end of the scene following the Inciting Incident. She was about to discover the extent of the destruction to everything she has known in her …
In today’s scene, my hero and guide character are navigating the literal fallout of the inciting incident as they pick their way through the devastation of the explosion. Actually, while I thought this was going to be an action scene, …
Today, I had a productive morning, thanks to an extra hour to write with the rest of the family not waking up yet. I got over 1000 words written (not great for an hour and a half, but not bad …
I’m trying to adopt the mentality that I am writing for myself in the first draft and to worry less about wording than about getting the story down on the page, but I still find my perfectionist tendencies interfering. I …
I’m still committed to using my computer-less time to work on my dictation, but I draw the line at walking in the rain. This morning, I woke up to a deluge that had continued from last night. I’m not about …
I finally reached the inciting incident of my story. Just as my hero has come to a conclusion about how she’s going to face down the problems she’s been facing so far in the first scenes, everything blows up in …
Yesterday, after writing my daily update, I got some extra time and went back to finish the scene then write the outline for my next one, thinking that I would get right into the writing this morning. But I’d forgotten …