Tag: inciting incident

At the beginning of a story, the protagonist enters from a place of normal – the world as they know it. There’s a level of familiarity to all of

I hadn’t planned on seeing the new Batman v Superman movie in the theaters, but we had a free night and were plain old curious about the bad

An inciting incident is the thing that kicks the story off – the “problem” that forms the root of the entire plot. Without an inciting incident, there would