There will be no voting about the Inciting Incident. Because, well, I want to surprise you. First, the Voices have come up with some incredible inciting incidents, and part of the problem is…well, they’re so good I want to use bits of and piece of many of them. I can’t break them apart to vote on. But, Secondly (and I’m writing this as I’m getting my weekly Grey’s fix), this is a teaching blog (hospital) and while it’s great for you all to scrub in along the way, hold the scalpel, and even do the procedures, (and probably some even better than we would!) someone needs to be the attending. To use their experience to sort of guide us all in the right direction. Which means me, and Rachel. […]
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We have a story!
The Actress and the Park Ranger! What, you didn’t like my talk show/teacher idea? Aw, my poor banjo-playing history teacher. But onward we go with our everyday Park Ranger hero, and our Celebrity! We have a few more elements to create before we can draft our story summary, and figure out the key points of the story… First – we need to figure out the hero and heroine’s spiritual epiphany. This is different than the black moment, which is all about their fears. The spiritual epiphany is what they experience shortly before or after the black moment, and it’s what the story is leading up to. So, to discover what the spiritual epiphany in, we need to look back into their past, and figure out what event or situation affected […]
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