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Here's one that almost every writer gets wrong. Antagonism is just anything standing between what your protagonist is, where they are, and what they want. Which is why an inciting incident, the event that knocks your protagonist's life off balance and starts the story, can even be something they want, like a job offer or meeting the love of their life. Or it could be your spouse drinking the last cup of coffee before you got out of bed. It doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world. It has to wreck the plan and send the protagonist down an unforeseen path. That's all it is, because your protagonist has an idea, just like we all do, of what's going to happen next, what's going to happen in our life. Even if everything's going terribly, even if we're in the ambulance dying of a gunshot wound, we're assuming we're going to make it to the hospital. And yet, if anything comes along and knocks that off balance, that can be an inciting That's what you've gotta do. Antagonism doesn't mean something terrible has happened. It just means something has come in and knocked the protagonist's life off balance. Like and subscribe for more writing tips.