While making some possible timelines and just generally mulling over my story, I happened upon this quick video of Ira Glass elaborating on the building blocks of a good story. It's not much but it helped to get my thoughts flowing again.
He gives two essential elements of a story - anectdote and reflection.
An anectdote is a story in its simplest form, one event leads to the next event and to the next. Even if you have the most boring sequence of events it should create some sort of suspense because it should be set up in such a way that the reader expects something to happen.
And reflection is what we've been focusing on. All these events, this anectdote, needs to mean something in order to give purpose to the story.
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