What are inciting incidents? Why do our stories and scenes need them? What are the elements of a solid inciting incident? This week, Story Grid Certified editor Leslie Watts discusses these story event catalysts in the context of the opening of Drew Horstman’s fantasy novel, Nicholas Crumb. The editorial mission encourages you to collect inciting incidents by reading and watching stories—and from your own life.
The Writership Podcast is designed to help you develop self-editing skills and write a better story. In every episode, Leslie critiques a fiction submission from a real writer who is, or hopes to be, a published author. They understand they may need help seeing what's working and not in their stories and are brave enough to share the experience. Each episode comes with an editorial mission to apply the topic discussed so you can improve your writing too.
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Ep. 138 World Building
Ep. 137 Strengthen Your Setting
Ep. 136 Resolutions
Ep. 135 Scene and Story Climaxes
Ep. 134 Crisis Questions for Your Scenes
Ep. 133 Progressive Complications for Your Scenes
Ep. 131 Analyzing Your Scenes
130. Writing with Abandon with Grant Faulkner
Ep. 129 Essential and Literal Action in Your Scenes
128. How to Take Your Story from Pretty Good to WOW!
127. Meeting Reader Expectations for Your Fiction Sales Category
126. Second Person Point of View
Episode 125: Putting Your Writing First with Mark McGuinness
Episode 124: Your Character’s Internal Journey
Epside 123: Leslie's Approach to Editing and Why You Need to Tell Your Story
Episode 122: Do Your Scenes Contain Conflict?
Episode 121: Structure for Character-Driven or Literary Stories
Episode 120: Crisis Questions
Episode 119: Scene Value Shifts
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