Nicholas Andriani

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  • The Five Commandments of Storytelling

    The Five Commandments of Storytelling

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    Nicholas Andriani
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    1. Inciting Incident The inciting incident destabilizes the protagonist by upsetting the balance of their life for good or for ill. Every inciting incident is either causal (the result of an active choice by an AVATAR) or coincidental (something unexpected or random or accidental). In response, the protagonist forms a goal, which they begin to pursue. Read…