Plots may be simple or complex

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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

H. P. Lovecraft

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  1. I think I’ve seen this maxim before… perhaps hundreds of times, in different words.
    Still, this is as clear a delineation as I’ve read.

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