The Unintentional is often the best...

I had a series of events all laid out in a line. They sort of made sense, and it helped with the flow.
Then I set down to writing them, and I thought about the actual CHARACTERS playing these roles, and suddenly what started out as a simple row of events, took on a whole new beautifully layered complexity.
It stopped being just Oh, Bob did X... and became Bob needed to do X to prove that Y was important to J thus allowing event B to have SO MUCH MORE significance.
It became beautiful and crystalline and complex. With layers and depth and real functions.
I LOVE the way this is going.