What's the difference between Inciting Incident and Call to Adventure?
An inciting incident would be a lesser charge than inciting to riot, but it means you started a disturbance. Lets suppose, you start talking with your friends about any type of storyline — a movie, a book, or even an episode of your favorite television show — inevitably someone will start analyzing what led up to it. What was it that put everything in motion? What's the first important thing that really pulls you into the story? In other words, to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot. The call to adventure indicate a risky or unexpected undertaking that the hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown. Campbell said: "This first stage of the mythological journey - which we have designated the "call to adventure" - signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pal...
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