Is It Really A Matter Of Convenience?

A short post today. But I believe it handles an issue of decent-sized importance for writers.

I received a review that said the only flaw with my book was “an abundance of convenient tools and events to drive the story along.”

Certainly not a terrible review.

However, this has me slightly confused. I can understand the convenient tools, but convenient events? Events are what drives a story along; so, how can they be convenient? How else does one write a story without having events that trigger...