What is an inciting incident?

The inciting incident is a critical element of storytelling in fiction. It serves as the event or occurrence that sets the plot in motion, creating a disruption in the protagonist’s life and introducing the story’s central conflict.

Outlining a Novel

These questions are things you should ask yourself in order to understand what is going to happen within the story. Not everything needs to planned out but the more than is planned out the easier it will be to write a cohesive story.