LANGBLR/STUDYBLR-> @a-studies-journey | Ana | she/her | 23 | Fanfic Writer | Ask box always open | Fandoms: Hetalia, Hannibal, Supernatural, Durarara, Les Mis, Owari no Seraph, X-Men and whatever I'm obsessed with at the moment |
stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.
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Inciting incident of a story - the event that sets the main character/s on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.
Typically, this incident will upset the balance within the main character’s world.
In classic detective films like The Big Sleep, for example, the inciting incident is the detective being asked to take on a new case.
In moments big and small, an inciting incident changes the life of a character, and the ensuing story is the fallout from that change.
Tips for Using Inciting Incidents in Your Writing
A compelling inciting action can be the difference between a gripping story and a forgettable one. Here are 3 techniques to make sure you’re writing the most effective possible beginnings to your stories:
Keep to your timeline. To make your reader or viewing audience emotionally invested in an inciting incident, make sure it takes place during the timeline of the story you’re telling. When an inciting action is a past event that others make reference to, it lacks the visceral truth of an incident that the audience has experienced.
Let your inciting action stimulate something sustainable. Your inciting plot point should drive a character to behave a certain way throughout the narrative. Make sure that the driving force will be sustainable throughout the full course of your story. A detective driven to solve a complicated case will sustain throughout the story. A man bitter about not getting the last slice of pizza could potentially be funny, but it won’t sustain a particularly long story.
Make your inciting action cause a noticeable shift in your character. A compelling inciting action will make your character take actions she would not have otherwise. In The Fugitive TV series, Dr. Richard Kimble loses his wife to murder and, worse still is accused of that murder. These traumatic events change Kimble, and they launch him onto a quest so compelling that it sustained four full seasons of television.
An inciting incident exists to launch a story.
If Shakespeare had begun Romeo and Juliet somewhere in the midst of the young lovers’ courtship, the story might have been entertaining, but it would have lacked the emotional stakes created when the two protagonists first lay eyes on each other in the play’s inciting incident.
It inspires the protagonist’s central motivations throughout the story.
In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the protagonist Charles Marlow finds his motivation when he learns about a Mr. Kurtz, in the story’s inciting incident.
The story goes on to detail Marlow’s obsessive quest to find Kurtz, and the horror he encounters when he finally finds him.
Every event that follows within the timeline of the story achieves its significance insofar as it relates to Marlow’s inciting action.
Types of Inciting Actions in Literature
As a general rule, inciting actions fall into one of 3 categories.
Causal inciting actions. Inciting actions involving a deliberate choice made either by the protagonist or about the protagonist. This deliberate choice informs all story elements to come. An example of this is Luke Skywalker’s recruitment in the original Star Wars film from 1977. The inciting action is the first step in Luke taking the archetypal “hero’s journey,” as famously described by Joseph Campbell.
Coincidental inciting actions. Inciting actions stemming from random chance, coincidence, or a protagonist “being in the right place at the right time.” In C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, the children inadvertently stumble upon a magical land through a portal in the back of a wardrobe. This chance discovery leads to all subsequent actions in the story.
Ambiguous inciting actions. Inciting actions that occur under circumstances that are not fully explained. The audience is left to guess whether the protagonist is placed in her situation by choice or by chance. Such inciting actions are common in thrillers and mysteries like The Sixth Sense, and the true story is rarely revealed until the very end of the film.
The prompts for Nordic Week 2026 are ready ✨ Thank you to everyone for all the suggestions!
Each day will have a theme, with three separate prompts - one general prompt, one song from a Nordic country, and one dialogue option.
PROMPT OVERVIEW:
Day 1: Sports
- On the Cover
- Levva Livet by Åge Aleksandersen (NO)
- "I may not say it often, but I'm glad we are stuck with each other"
Day 2: History
- Planting the Seed
- Stole the Show by KYGO (NO)
- "I'm glad you called"
Day 3: Nature
- Letters and Photographs
- Gode Dage, Gode Drinks by Lamin (DK)
- "I don't believe you"
Day 4: Folklore
- Midsummer
- Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men (IS)
- "I've heard a rumour"
Day 5: Friends Abroad
- Garden Party
- Tässä on Kaikki by Kuumaa (FI)
- "It's three in the morning"
Day 6: Domestic
- Thrift Store Finds
- Chiquitita by ABBA (SE)
- "I can't stand you"
Day 7: Free Day
- Alternate Universe/AU
- Still Counting by Volbeat (DK)
- "That wasn't my fault, that's on you"
As a reminder:
Read the event rules!
The prompts are not mandatory - they are for inspiration 🌷
The week is between the 13th and 19th of July 2026
The entry should be tagged with #hwsnordicweek2026 within the first five tags and you are welcome to @ this blog as well ✨
If I can be vulnerable for a second, as someone who has always read abandoned fics because my philosophy is "if someone took the time to write this, I want to take the time to read it", all of this influx of ai fics is really fucking me up 😭
Like I can read fics that are written a bit annoyingly or fics with a reasonable amount of ortography mistakes or fics that after a while I start to find repetitive or even a bit boring and I will leave kudos and a comment because even if it's not perfect, it came from love. As someone who started writting fics when I was 12 and produced some painfully awful shit, people reading and commenting are the reason I never gave up, and I've always wanted to be that for someone who maybe still need to work on their writing.
I appreciate the love and care put into a fic first of all, and the fact that now I keep metaphorically looking over my shoulder wondering if the fic I'm reading was written with love or is just ai slop breaks my heart.
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no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on tumblr.
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
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he's beautiful i literally need to put him under extreme psychological stress. i need to put him in extreme physical pain. i need him curling up in someone's arms for the feelings of safety and comfort he hasn't received in ages
sex isn't real it's something they made up as a hypothetical so we could do kink discourse. it's kind of like the trolley from the trolley problem. it's just a thought experiment
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disabled people have to live below the poverty line to have access to things that give them independence, but ai is largely free and marketed as a tool to make life easier for everyone, it’s a therapist, it’s a partner, it’s an ‘art’ tool it’s getting people degrees in school… and then you read the studies where they’re proving ai is causing severe cognitive decline and it all makes sense, that’s exactly the type of people that can be controlled en masse, people that cannot think without being spoon fed information
we are seeing this in every day life, “it’s not that deep” no because you are incapable of thinking about it that deep because chatgpt can spit out anything for you In seconds, media literacy is at an all time low, tv shows are made with a formula that assumes you’ll be doing another task while you have it on, and this is all on purpose, why do you think short form content is pushed on every platform when it’s also been proven that it fucks with the way our brain works, we’re being trained to not to think, to not resist
