From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   William Vetter  wrote:   
      
   > I don't say that's all there is to it.  I can know a scene where a   
   > character brings a kitten home can be as routine as a character riding a   
   > horse from A to B, and still fail to make it interesting or fully   
   > relevant, but I know where the problem is.  It must be there so the   
   > kitten can join the lost and the zero-self-esteem POV character have his   
   > transformation.   
      
      
   "Moving the plot" type stuff is very context sensitive.  People are   
   unlikely to recognize whether a single scene is successfully moving a   
   plot forward or not, unless they know what the plot is.  Preferably via   
   having read the rest of the story up to that point.   
      
      
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