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Chapter 004 Initiative Incident
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2020-08-03 18:33:05Start your story with an initiative incident. It’s an initial cause for all the plots following. Initiative incident pushes all the four main factors of your story moving, and the four main factors being struggle, crisis, climax, and denouement. Without an initiative incident, your story will not be able to move forward on its own.
An initiative incident breaks the balance of all the forces in the protagonist’s life.
The protagonist needs to respond to the incident, too.
Here below is an example of initiative incident for you:
A college dropout lives near by NYU. One morning she wakes up, saying to herself: “I’m tired of my life. I will move to Los Angeles.” She put her baggage on her volkswagen golf and started to drive west. Yes, there’s a change in her life, but the change of address does not change her aloof attitude to her life -- so the change of her from living in New York to living in Los Angeles does not qualify for a change we are looking for here.
Let’s see another scenario. The same college dropout gets woken up by a police at her door, holding a felony warrant because she has been stalling on a 10k dollar fine. She escapes from the fire stairway and heads west.
So in this case, the knocking on her door from the police broke the balance in her life, and she also responded to the incident.
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