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5 Tips for Writing Your Story's Inciting Incident Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 2 “The Inciting Incident” (Previous Tutorial)             (Next Tutorial) “The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.” -Donald Miller Once you have completed your Beginning plot-point, in which you establish the beginnings of your plot, world, and characters, your next one will be the Inciting Incident. The Inciting Incident is the point of the story at which your pr

i am the moon: i am the silver pill descending down your throat to weigh down lashes into leaden eyes-- i am the moon: lover of the dark. the stars are all dead in their twinkling dance-- you'll be safe, dear, as i am the moon, with all of their secrets. you're alright. (i am good bye and yet, you think only of romantic rues) i am the moon. i am the crescent pearl, looking dead-- and dead altogether, i still die.

Listlessly, I stared down at the untouched bowl of soup in front of me. The hours had dragged by until suppertime; this afternoon I'd been assigned to dishwashing, but they sent me away after less than an hour because I'd been so agitated I ended up dropping two plates. So I had spent the rest of the evening in training with the mindset that maybe physical exercise would take my mind of things and help me get prepared for tomorrow. The only things I ended up achieving were making myself angry and accidentally punching Jinxx in the face. From across the table, I heard him make a joke about it to the person seated next to him. “Hey, you