Inciting Event: The tourist TwoFlower arrives in Ankh Morpork. (Key Event: Rincewind the wizard is hired by TwoFlower as a guide.) First Plot Point: TwoFlower is kidnapped by Ymor, inspiring Rincewind to affect a rescue First Pinch Point: Fate plays a dangerous piece in his cosmic dice game against The Lady, putting Rincewind and Twoflower […]

Inciting Event: Kip escapes his half-brother Zymun. He ends up on an island, where he finally taps into his powers and begins shedding his inferiority complex. I’ll say right off that the structure in this book is … tricky. In part, this is because it’s a sequel (in which the various structural moments are often […]

Inciting Event: Sophie is cursed when the Witch of the Waste (seemingly) shows up at random in Sophie’s hat shop, tells her to “stay away from what belongs to me,” and turns her into an old woman. Immediately after, Sophie goes to the Waste and takes shelter in Howl’s moving castle. In the movie, we […]

Inciting Event: Disgraced pilot Ridge arrives at the mountain prison mine he has been put in charge of for the next year. He meets Sardelle, a strange woman he believes is a prisoner—but who is, in fact, a magic-wielding Referatu who has just emerged from a 300-year stasis. As in most romances, the Inciting Event […]

Inciting Event: Using her as a guinea pig in an “experiment,” Uncle Andrew tricks Polly into touching one of his magic rings, sending her to the Wood between the Worlds and horrifying Digory, who has no idea why his friend has vanished. Digory also must touch a ring to go rescue Polly. First Plot Point: Digory and […]

Inciting Event: There are a handful of “Inciting Events” happening throughout the second half of the First Act to the various POV characters, but the primary Inciting Event—the one that affects the main plot and all the characters—is the apparent death threat that appears on Highprince Dalinar’s wall during one of his highstorm visions. As […]

Inciting Event: After waking up in the strange world of Lael and discovering that this is the world in which all humans live when “dreaming,” Chris tries to shut off the dreams using his ability as a “Gifted”—someone whose consciousness is the same in both worlds and who is able to transport physical objects between […]

Inciting Event: Lucy Pevensie enters a wardrobe and finds herself in the land of Narnia, where she befriends the faun Tumnus. First Plot Point: During a game of hide-and-seek, disbelieving Edmund enters the wardrobe after Lucy and meets Jadis, the White Witch. The Witch offers him Turkish Delight and promises him the throne of Narnia. […]

Inciting Event: John Carter finds himself transported to Mars and discovers his human strength gives him superhuman abilities in Mars’s lower gravity. First Plot Point: The Tharks defeat a fleet of airships from Helium and take Dejah Thoris prisoner. First Pinch Point: John Carter is threatened with death should he and Dejah Thoris try to escape the Tharks. Midpoint: 
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