SpaceAce - October Prep Month

October 2nd, 2017 - The Beginning

Oct. 02: - Beginning ▼

(1) Describe your protagonist's life in the beginning ("Ordinary World" or "Stasis") of the story. Brainstorm ways you could establish normality through action and dialog to avoid boring your reader.
(2) Describe the inciting incident or trigger ("Call to Adventure") that prompts your protagonist(s) to embark on this story's journey (whether literal or metaphorical) and face the conflict. This incident could be large and obvious like a death or disaster, or it could be seemingly insignificant, such as an offhand comment by another character.


(1) Describe your protagonist's life in the beginning ("Ordinary World" or "Stasis") of the story. Brainstorm ways you could establish normality through action and dialog to avoid boring your reader.

When we first see Villiam he’s in a fight with Ovven. It’s Gracea who break up that fight.

The fight itself is the action. And the dialogue after it shouldn’t be boring. Especially after the murder takes place. Like most Mysteries, there is a lot of dialogue in this novel. There is also a lot of action in it too. It starts with the murder. And while Gracea is trying to find out who set up Villiam for the murder of Ovven, Villiam is continuing his training to become a SpaceAce.

(2) Describe the inciting incident or trigger ("Call to Adventure") that prompts your protagonist(s) to embark on this story's journey (whether literal or metaphorical) and face the conflict. This incident could be large and obvious like a death or disaster, or it could be seemingly insignificant, such as an offhand comment by another character.

The murder of Ovven is what triggers this novel. And it’s that Villiam has been set up for this murder that motivates Gracea to go after the real killer. She would have done it anyway. But because it’s Villiam so personally involved in it it’s personal to her too. No one does that to her Older Male Family Member (a title that’s used very little, if ever in these novels) and gets away with it. That’s her job. After all she’s his Younger Female Family Member. (once again, not used much)