![]() Of course, all these tips are contingent on your ability toĬorrectly ID the ingredients of your story. The foundation for the rest of the story wasn’t there. ![]() Because the author cut off this critical piece of background info in order to get to the action quicker-and in the process committed the cardinal sin of telling rather than showing-PP1 showed up before I had a chance to understand or care about anything that came next. In the baby-pact story, the inciting incident was when the woman decided to have a baby, which happened before the book even started and was told to the reader via an internal monologue. It’s the foundation of the story, and if it’s not solid then the rest of the story crumbles. Remember that everything before PP1 is set-up to establish the characters, their world, and the stakes. Meaning: There could be a lot of things causing this problem, including a lack of compelling conflict, unengaging characters, or murky motivations, but it could also be that PP1 happens too soon (as was the case in the baby-pact story I mentioned in Part 2).
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