The inciting incident?
A tweet that was written years ago now has
surfaced and is destroying your character.
They don’t remember doing it… or… it’s out of
context… just bad humor… or something more “of its time”. It doesn’t matter.
Bring them down.
Take things away from them.
Take everything away from them.
It’s a horror if you do that.
If the character realizes that this punishment
is justice.
Let them pluck out their eyes.
Then it’s a tragedy.
Sometimes I think about this difference in
modern contexts as people view different events differently. The way we treat
past sins and whether or not we are “married” to those sins today.
Or… write a circular structure play where the
beginning is the end is the beginning. Nothing changes.
HOWEVER, there is still an inciting incident and
dramatic arc! You just end up with exactly the same stasis as before AND the
same inciting incident again- built in to reoccur forever and ever.
**********
I'll save the mean tweets
for later; for now -
Mixing the antidote...
**********
SARAH
is joined by JEFFREY and, unexpectedly, DUNCAN
SARAH
Oh,
you brought company.
JEFFREY
This
is Duncan, from the Wiccan supply store.
SARAH
I'd
say "nice to meet you" but -
DUNCAN
I
also wish this were under better circumstances.
SARAH
Still,
this situation is already working out pretty well for you.
JEFFREY
Well
-
SARAH
This
is the guy, right?
JEFFREY
Yes,
this is the guy.
SARAH
Because
you made that sound like -
DUNCAN
I'm
not any happier with the lapse in ethics than you are.
SARAH
So
you have a vested interest in seeing this antidote works right the first time,
too.
DUNCAN
I
feel slightly responsible.
SARAH
Well,
you are.
DUNCAN
I
had no idea what he was going to do.
SARAH
Are
the ingredients he purchased common to a whole lot of other spells?
DUNCAN
Actually,
yes.
You
never know where someone is in terms of the ingredients they already have on
hand, the level they're working at, their experience.
Believe
me, if he'd flat out said at the counter, "I'm making a love potion,"
he would have gotten the lecture.
SARAH
So
there is a lecture?
JEFFREY
Oh,
there's a lecture, and believe me, I got it.
SARAH
A
little later than we'd all hoped but -
JEFFREY
Since
he, and you, are the experts, I figured it couldn't hurt to have two extra sets
of invested eyes on the process.
DUNCAN
And
we're at your place because - ?
SARAH
I
have committed space for these kinds of things.
He threw the original together in his garage.
DUNCAN
We'll
get this right.
We'll
make this right.
SARAH
It
is nice to meet you, Duncan.
DUNCAN
And
I am sorry, Sarah.
JEFFREY
Like
you said, we'll make it right.
SARAH
Let's
mix in the last ingredient, shall we?
(to
be continued)
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