It’s Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Inciting Incident Is…?
by O-Dark-Thirty Senior Editor Jim Mathews
Have you ever started reading a short story (or started writing one) where the prose is flawless and the characters believable but halfway through you realize…you’re just reading flawless prose with believable characters? I mean, don’t we already have that in real life (give or take a flaw)? And isn’t that why people turn to fiction? To get something they can’t get from life? Or from a well-written newspaper article?