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The day before Christmas, an unadventurous, spoiled young boy gets kidnapped. He escapes with the help from a girl who has facts that will help him find his beloved father, but there is a price. He must first recover something that is precious to her before Christmas.
Is this still a Christmas story? Assuming the story is set in the present era, a more plausible cover story for an unrecovered body would be a plane accident over the ocean. And while the boy may be grieving and unhappy with his uncle, I don't think it qualifies as an adequate inciting incident thatRead more
Is this still a Christmas story?
Assuming the story is set in the present era, a more plausible cover story for an unrecovered body would be a plane accident over the ocean.
And while the boy may be grieving and unhappy with his uncle, I don’t think it qualifies as an adequate inciting incident that creates the objective goal of finding his father. All his uncle provides by taking over is to make a sad child more miserable — more negativity. Which is good enough for inducing the kid to run away to escape his uncle.
But that’s not the reason he’s running away — not the primary reason, anyway. In terms of his objective goal he’s not running away to escape his uncle (negative); he’s running away to find his father (positive). And he would only have that objective goal if he had reason to believe his father didn’t die in the accident, that he may still be alive.
So it seems to me the inciting incident should be a discovery, a clue that gives him HOPE his father is still alive.
See lessThe day before Christmas, an unadventurous, spoiled young boy gets kidnapped. He escapes with the help from a girl who has facts that will help him find his beloved father, but there is a price. He must first recover something that is precious to her before Christmas.
Is this still a Christmas story? Assuming the story is set in the present era, a more plausible cover story for an unrecovered body would be a plane accident over the ocean. And while the boy may be grieving and unhappy with his uncle, I don't think it qualifies as an adequate inciting incident thatRead more
Is this still a Christmas story?
Assuming the story is set in the present era, a more plausible cover story for an unrecovered body would be a plane accident over the ocean.
And while the boy may be grieving and unhappy with his uncle, I don’t think it qualifies as an adequate inciting incident that creates the objective goal of finding his father. All his uncle provides by taking over is to make a sad child more miserable — more negativity. Which is good enough for inducing the kid to run away to escape his uncle.
But that’s not the reason he’s running away — not the primary reason, anyway. In terms of his objective goal he’s not running away to escape his uncle (negative); he’s running away to find his father (positive). And he would only have that objective goal if he had reason to believe his father didn’t die in the accident, that he may still be alive.
So it seems to me the inciting incident should be a discovery, a clue that gives him HOPE his father is still alive.
See lessWhen a naively sentimental clown doctor is approached by an 8 year old cancer patient in the hospital a bond is made and he must find a way to make the boy smile and learn to not get attached himself.
Furtherless, how is it legally possible for a doctor to be fired for not making patients laugh? How can that technically be deemed incompetence or negligence? A comedian hired to make patients laugh and failing to do so, okay. But a licensed, board certified doctor? I've met doctors with the bedsideRead more
Furtherless, how is it legally possible for a doctor to be fired for not making patients laugh? How can that technically be deemed incompetence or negligence? A comedian hired to make patients laugh and failing to do so, okay. But a licensed, board certified doctor?
I’ve met doctors with the bedside levity of mafia button men — but that was never grounds for a negligence suit; it never stopped them from practicing because of incompetence.
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