Comments on The WriteRunner: Story Structure Part II: The Call to Adventure

Hello I read your post and this is really very goo...

2009-10-07T04:56:46.706-07:00

Hello
I read your post and this is really very good.I must appreciate for this.This is very true that Inciting Incidents happen all the time.Thank you very much for sharing this information with us.

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Laura: The book is a brain dump from the author. H...

2009-10-05T22:29:59.515-07:00

Laura: The book is a brain dump from the author. He'd be better off re-writing it from scratch because I barely remember some of the movies he references.
Lady: I'll check out your blog. I may put some comments there.
Jeannie: Thanks for the update

i'm totally bookmarking this series. excellent stu...

2009-10-05T21:28:35.242-07:00

i'm totally bookmarking this series. excellent stuff.

I wanted to let you know about my blog address change. *sigh* If you're following me, my posts now won't show up in your feed, dashboard, sidebar, whatever. So please forgive me, but you'll have to change the address for my main writing blog, Where Romance Meets Therapy, to http://jeanniecampbell.blogspot.com. To do this, you have to "unfollow" me and follow me again. Sorry for the confusion!

Jeannie
The Character Therapist

Great post! I did a series on the Inciting Inciden...

2009-10-05T18:00:28.805-07:00

Great post! I did a series on the Inciting Incident awhile ago on my blog. It can get really confusing, I think.

Personally, I think the Inciting Incident character is more important than the actual incident. I talk about this in my posts. You've got some great information here! Thank you for sharing. :)

The posts are here.

Thanks for this series. I have the book, but I lik...

2009-10-05T13:54:32.835-07:00

Thanks for this series. I have the book, but I like the way you break it down. It's lodging in my brain better. :)

It's a tough call. The way to think about it is th...

2009-10-05T13:30:06.270-07:00

It's a tough call. The way to think about it is that the "initial event" is an example of what the character has to deal with, but it's not a call to change. In this football example I'm using, I could start out with the hero reading the game lineup and seeing himself on the bench again. This isn't a call to adventure, but it does create instant conflict. You can tell he wants to play, and you can tell he's disappointed again. You get a feeling that the book is something about him getting to play.

Think of James Bond movies. They all start with an exciting action sequence, but none of those are really calls to adventure, they're just illustrations of the kind of man he is and what he's capable of. The Call comes later when "M" gives him a new assignment. Start out the book with the hero in his natural world, tackling things he's used to tackling. THEN introduce something new and exciting.

Once again it depends on genre and plot specifics. You can introduce the reader to the incident early on, but you want to introduce the hero in his natural, ordinary world, because he'll eventually have to return to it.

This is a great post. I've been wrestling with th...

2009-10-05T12:56:22.566-07:00

This is a great post. I've been wrestling with that inciting event thing. I currently have it at the beginning in order to draw the reader in, but I'm struggling with grounding them in the story. You make some excellent points here.