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Section BWA · story 95 entries 26 August 2026

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  1. The Three C’s of a Scene

    Your primary focus is on story and less on writing scenes, sharp dialogue or gripping action. Inevitably, though, once figured…

    3 min
  2. Inciting Incident: Event, not Action.

    When talking about story structure, many people talk about where exactly in the story the structural element needs to happen.…

    3 min
  3. Inciting Incident: Definitions

    Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the point where your story…

    2 min
  4. The Inciting Incident

    The first guy to write down that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, was Aristotle. About twenty-four centuries…

    2 min
  5. First, Break All the Rules

    When I asked this student which one thing she remembered above anything else, she replied: "That you can break the…

    7 min
  6. Selected Bibliography

    This bibliography I often include in my course notes. It contains publications that I regularly consult or quote from. Aronson,…

    2 min