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The Catalyst: When the Bomb Drops
In The Storyteller’s Way (an expanded beat sheet built upon Save the Cat), what most frameworks call the Catalyst/Inciting Incident lines up with Beat 4: “FLASH POINT—the moment the hero can’t un-know or can’t undo, and the plot gains irreversible forward momentum. A template you can use when crafting your own powerful Flash Point is
Disruption → Cost → Direction.

Ali Cross
Apr 167 min read
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