Plot-driven

Plot-driven

An action which occurs, not because the characters are motivated to make it so, but because the author wants to yank the storey in a particular direction. Usually manifests by the characters refusing to act in the way that the author has programmed them to, or by being wooden when performing the actions in question.

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