Pinball Wizard

Ultimately, plots are driven by the characters. Even when the main character is shipwrecked on a desert island and supposedly forced by this outside circumstance to struggle against nature, the character could simply give up and starve to death. Most writers don’t choose characters who would do that, of course.

But even the character who’s been shipwrecked starts the story with a plan. They were on that ship that got wrecked because they were going somewhere, and they expected to do something (g...