: Re: Inciting incident in Fantasy In my fantasy story, there is about 10,000 words before the inciting incident. I originally intended to land the end of my story at about 40,000 words. This is

I don't think it's necessarily what's common. It's more about what you want to do. As long as your bridging conflicts are engaging and your characters are given goals and pre-arcs, and are characterized in an engaging way during the setup, you should have no problem with this. I know that in Jaws (even though it isn't a fantasy), the author gives us the backstory dump on every single character, but he does it in such a way that helps us readers understand their motives. So while world building, you might want to characterize simultaneously. Good luck!

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