Editing Screenwriting (section)

===Plot===
{{See also|Act structure}}
Plot, according to Aristotle's ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]'', refers to the sequence events connected by cause and effect in a story. A story is a series of events conveyed in chronological order. A plot is the same series of events deliberately arranged to maximize the story's dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance. [[E.M.Forster]] famously gives the example "The king died and then the queen died" is a story." But "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Forster |first1=E. M. |title=Aspects of the Novel |date=1927 |publisher=Mariner Books |location=UK |isbn=978-0156091800 }}</ref> For [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]] this is best summarized as a series of events connected by either the word "therefore" or the word "however".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2014/03/06/writing-advice-from-south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone/|title=Writing Advice from South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone|last=Studio|first=Aerogramme Writers'|date=2014-03-06|website=Aerogramme Writers' Studio|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25|archive-date=2019-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915144210/http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2014/03/06/writing-advice-from-south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone/|url-status=live}}</ref>