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

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