/lit/ - Literature

>Constantly refreshing emails to see if any of the agents have responded
The worst feeling desu.

I had a lot of ideas in my thriller book that I ended up scrapping and now I have no idea how to do the "inciting incident" that kicks off the plot. The idea involves corrupt government officials, ninjas, and a lot of autistic shit, but I can't figure out how to string together the plot lines.

One idea I had went like this:
>main character
>sees intimidating black dude
>jogger gets gunned down because city is a shithole
>main character tries to help
>turns out he's an undercover cop or something and it wasn't a gangland killing but an assassination
>dying man gives main character a mini SD card containing evidence of corrupt official

I scrapped it because it implies the police are actually competent and effective, and the main character enters a war he didn't sign up for.