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STEVE CAVERNO: Hi, I'm Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village. And today, I'll be talking
to you about developing your plot. Next, we're going to talk about the inciting incident.
This is what happens to propel the story into motion. In Romeo and Juliet, this is that
moment at the Capulet ball where Romeo and Juliet meet eyes with each other. They fall
in love at first sight. And that is what propels the story into motion. And then they have
their moment on the balcony which furthers that moment. But that moment is the inciting
incident; when that first happens. And so, when this--when we look at a story, you gotta
find a moment where the status quo is interrupted and the car veers forward, the engine gets
cranked, whatever happen, to bring your story into motion. Sometimes, it can be something
like a death--someone kills someone like in Hamlet. Hamlet reveals that his father was
killed by his uncle. And that moment when Hamlet's father tells him that his uncle was
a murderer, that propels the motion into the very end of the play. Hamlet, at that point,
has resolved that he is going to solve the mystery of his father's death and avenge his
father's death. So, this is how we create a plot. This is how we create the conflict.