How to Start Your Story: 4-Step Inciting Incident Checklist

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The start of your story needs to hook readers and keep them turning pages. BUT... it's so much more than that!
In this video you will learn the 4 steps to develop the perfect inciting incident for your story.
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@alexe8996 4 месяца назад

Thank you Time! this is the BEST channel for writers who has a real story to tell💜

@MrNoucfeanor 4 месяца назад

Absolutely! Tim, The Write Mindset & John Adamus are hidden treasures! They approach things different but actually have useful Information! Not just a short form video in a set, with an empty cup of coffee and shiet eating grin. Curious that the actual helpful folks get little to no recognition while the pretentious fart sniffers are bumped to the top! Looking at you Stephen King. Just my humble opinion. Thanks for the info!

@PhoenixCrown 11 месяцев назад

Very helpful. #3 and #4 are incredibly complex... Pointing to the end seems simple enough, but invisible elements has me pondering... Thanks!

@andreabknight 11 месяцев назад

I way I see it is when life sends you something unexpected it is sudden, shocking, confusing etc. You don't understand why it has happened. That is the invisible elements part. Those bits you don't understand become clearer/have more obvious impact later on. Imagine if you had unexpectedly received a huge sum of money anonymously- you wouldn't know where it came from, who chose you and why. As time goes on you get more clues and you find out it is someone you know, then you find out who it is and why they chose you etc. Then the implications of that are realised, with something even more sinister underneath that requires action to deal with it.

@PhoenixCrown 10 месяцев назад

Thanks great example!@@andreabknight

@philm9593 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this ,Tim. The "Inciting Incident" seems simple enough. However, when broken down it becomes clear just how important it is to get this element right. The detailed breakdown is really useful. Nice one.

@callmechristian3900 28 дней назад

I agree with what you’re saying as a general rule but you mentioned John wick for example. The 3rd of 4 rules you said the IN. IN. Needs to have invisible elements. I don’t know if John wick fits that criteria. When his dog is killed he knows who did it, what he needs to do, how far he will have to go. Now if you are looking at all the movies as a whole then yeah, but just for wick chapter 1, there doesn’t seem to be too much invisible elements for him. But I do agree that in the overwhelming majority of movies the 4 steps are found.

@mangledtapes 5 месяцев назад

Loving this channel. Thanks so much, Tim

@gabo6713 10 месяцев назад

Good advice. Thanks.

@tymelyneentertainments7478 8 месяцев назад

Perfect

@Banguelas 10 месяцев назад

“It was a dark stormy night.” Snoopy, peanuts

@blazel462 10 месяцев назад

Moe turned around ominously and approached Curly, his voice resolute. “Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned, and step by step, inch by inch, I walked up to him and I smashed him! I hit him! i bonked him! I bopped him! I socked him! I mashed his face and I knocked him down!” …

@HLLeRoy 8 месяцев назад

Nucular?

@shikikawagiri 19 дней назад

Checklist for Inciting Incident. 1. Abide by Genre Conventions - 4:23 2. Create an Imbalance in the Protagonist's Life - 5:14 3. Contains Invisible Elements - 5:50 4. Point to the End - 7:10

@DawnMK2023 11 месяцев назад

This is exactly what I needed right now. Questions I didn't know I had were answered. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@chrismantonuk 10 месяцев назад

“The night was sultry.”

@arzabael 10 месяцев назад

“It was a hot day when John woke up and he was angry.” By far my favorite game

@think-islam-channel 10 месяцев назад

😂. Great film

@XPM22 9 месяцев назад

Yo, I’m actually hooked off that sentence 😂

@polak56565 8 месяцев назад

ew 😂

@MrNoucfeanor 4 месяца назад

It's a horrible night to have a curse...

@Anna-ii3ee 5 дней назад

Invaluable information about the inciting incident.

@captainnolan5062 11 месяцев назад

Why is it critical that we know whether the inciting incident is causal or coincidental? (See your statement at approximately @3:20)

@snugdream2307 21 день назад

Did you find out?

@captainnolan5062 21 день назад

I haven’t heard anything yet

@patnor7354 8 месяцев назад

Good points and straight to the point.

@Ishana-Sharma 3 месяца назад

Best video I have watched on inciting incident

@DarkTider 15 дней назад

4:44 - Columbo disagree with you, all 70 episodes of it.

@Pualn08 9 месяцев назад

Great stuff! Simple and easy to grasp.

@ThereIsNoUserAvalible 2 месяца назад

00:00

@LiviaMortensen 11 месяцев назад

Can you do a video about subplots?

@tomlewis4748 3 месяца назад

I have a quick question, and I apologize if it may not pertain precisely to this particular video. The concept of the 5 story elements in a scene is one of the most important lessons Story Grid has taught me. But is it OK to have more than one set of them in a single scene? I have a few scenes that do. One might assume that once you have one set of 5, a successive set of 5 might be considered a new scene. But if there is no significant change in focus, if there is no gap in time or change in location, and if the two sets of 5 seem interrelated, that feels to me like one scene. I know there is a danger in making any scene too complex, but is it OK to have more than just the 5 in one scene? When it happens, it feels like it works. It mirrors what sometimes happens in real life.

@lrodriguez5545 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! I am too much novice, so I am expecting/waiting for the foolscap exercise for a scene or chapter, to better understanding of the technical

@bakhshishsingh2711 2 месяца назад

Great thank you.

@picklesandstardust3250 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Thank you!

@jeffj4440 11 месяцев назад

excellent

@joshuam2212 11 месяцев назад

here is a new spin on a dark story night JACK STOPPED TO CAUGHT HIS BREATH LIGHTNING LIT UP THE WOOD HE HAD TO GET OUT OF HERE BUT WITH WAS WAS HOME O NO HE WAS LOST. this has to many possibilities he could find a cave to ride out the storm or on his way back home he hears a child crying and finds a young kid next to a seriously injured older boy I HOPE SOMEONE FINDS THIS HELPFUL OR ENTERTAINING I WILL CHECK BACK AND SEE IF ANYONE COMMENTS ON THIS IT COULD BE FUN TO SEE WHAT SOMEONE THINKS OF HIS