Plot. Over dinner she asks him if he would prefer to have a marriage that settles into a good sex life without friendship or one that settles into a good friendship without much of a sex life.

Plot is simple. Event A causes event B, which causes event C and eventually leads to some type of conclusion D. Plot is sometimes carefully disguised in writing workshops as

''Plots are for dead people, pore-face."
Lorrie Moore

Ha. A favorite writer of mine feels the same way about plots as I do. Plots, brack. And because a writer like Lorrie Moore shares my sentiment on plots, maybe, just maybe, I really am a writer.