at predicting the next step or ending in a TV series or movie (particularly solving murder mysteries), not by deductive reasoning, but because you can figure out what puzzle piece is missing that will make the story work. For example, last night I was watching where the housemaid was curious as to where the young male servant was going off to with flowers, so she followed him, thinking it was to a sweetheart, but I instantly knew it was to a cemetery to the grave of his mother. And I was right. My friend, who's very good with deductive logic, hadn't expected it, and he said, 'But they weren't funereal flowers'. I said you only use those at a funeral. People bring all sorts of flowers to graves, even gay ones. So how did I know? The story needed to be that way, simple as that, to be a good story. And when I'm wrong--it's not as good as it could be.
I sometimes wonder if it means I really should try to write myself, if there's a writer somewhere in there, and maybe I would be good at creating plots after all.
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