The Inciting Incident: 7 Tips For Starting Your Story With a Bang

What is an inciting incident?

Do your friends or family yawn when you show them your latest work of fiction? Are you struggling to start your story in a way that your reader never forgets?

Do you want to light a fuse in your script so that your reader has to read on and discover how the tale turns out?

What you need is an inciting incident.

How do you do that? Let’s find out!

I’ve spent the last few months rewriting a collection of short stories, and I’ve faced all of these problems.

I won’t lie...