Atavist - Where Stories Begin. A List of 40 Superhero Cliches and Tropes. 1.
The story’s inciting event is most often the murder of a loved one(s). For example, in Spider-Man, Peter’s uncle gets killed because he wasn’t brave enough to take action. One possible subversion is that the uncle got killed because Peter (or the uncle) did try to take action. Glimmer Train Press Online Submissions. Still time to enter our fiction contest. Comments (0) BUDDING fiction writers are reminded there is still time to enter The Herald's jubilee short story contest.
Our Christmas and Valentine's contests were such successes we are running another based around The Queen's Diamond Jubilee – with the theme of "anniversary". You could theme your fiction around a special date, a birthday, wedding anniversary, the commemoration of an historical event, a ceremony, festival, memorial, holiday in honour of something, or any specially recurring event. But it could be something else.