The Inciting Incident: Where and How to Start Your Novel

Getting started is the hardest thing. How do you decide where the book starts? What’s the difference between story and plot and why does it matter?DISCLAIMER: None of the suggestions herein are hard, fast rules and, indeed, every one of them has been broken at one time or another. But rarely can new authors jump in and start breaking rules with an early book and see it work in their favor, so keep that in mind if you find yourself disagreeing with the points below. In this series of posts, I...